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Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc
The Barrow-Wights... well, who knows. If they were originally just "spirits", then they might have inhabited the wraith-world from the very beginning and therefore, calling them "undead" won't be as "politically correct". Though there is the possibility that a Barrow-Wight, in fact = some empty shell of a skeleton + some sort of a said spirit to give it a "life". So Barrow-Wight as a whole could be called "undead", while the original spirit may be not. But that's just guessing.
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Interesting take on the Barrow-Wights. I have nothing to contribute right now, but I'd love to find out more about them... always found them one of the many mysteries in Tolkien that I wanted to know more about.