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Originally Posted by alatar
That would make some sense, except that some 'thing' had to transport the hobbits into the Barrow.
So are wights spirits in the material world? I guess so, as even the Nazgul can wear clothing. Odd that Frodo's clothing, when he wears the Ring, disappears with him.
So maybe spirits are just invisible, yet material.
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I always considered the wights to be spirits (sent by the WiKi) that reanimated the corpses (or limbs of corpses, as it were) in the Barrows. The arm could have been one of those once attached to the long-dead prince of Cardolan, or his stuttering cousin, Stanley. So you see, the limbs/skeletal remains in the Barrows were once Dunedain (or even remains of previous cultures), but the spirits inhabiting them were wightish; therefore, there is no reason a healthy skeleton or two could not drag a few Hobbits into the Barrow. After all, there was always a wight laying about willing to lend a hand...or leg.