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This is certainly a possible explanation. Of course it kind of kills an interesting discussion stone dead.
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Oops! Wouldn't be the first time a post of mine dried up a thread. That said, a physical explanation needn't make the discussion 'stone dead' as I was only speaking of Merry - the receiver. What of the transmitter?
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Or wone could use the analogy of a book - when we read a book we are in the position of observer one, following events serially, seeing what comes next. But the book we hold in our hands contains the whole story, & we could jump in at any point, experience the world of the story from the place & time of any of the characters - in fact, like Frodo we too could skip from 'The House of Tom Bombadil' to 'The Grey Havens' omitting completely the intervening 900 pages.....
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The Wight may be like one of these books, or maybe we're all books, but in this case the Wight is stuck in a certain chapter - cursed there, perhaps? This assumes that we accept that the Wight is there for some good reason in the first place, and hasn't moved on. Regardless, it *is* there, and when it captures one of the living, it sends out a signal that replays a specific battle, which, from the point of view of the Wight, was a memory or replay of a victorious moment. Was this due to the memory being vivid, was the pre-Wight being slain at that time, and so reliving the last few moments that it had recorded (like an airplane's black box), or did it send out this memory instinctively in order to increase the despair/fear in its victims, whereby making them more easily sacrificed?