The barrow-wights were of a substance that could crush will. Maybe that was why Frodo and Inc, felt so hopeless when captured, and it was really that Tom Bombadil rescued them from their hopelessness before the wights were able to take enough will from them to steal their bodies because they were animated souls.
If you crack open the Barrow and the sunlight came through, the barrow-wights would disapear and never come back. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] So don't crack a window or we might be down one Barrow-wight.
~~Daegwenn
[ April 11, 2002: Message edited by: Daegwenn ]
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"And still of a winter’s night, they say, when the wind is in the trees,
When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
When the road is a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
A highwayman comes riding—
Riding—Riding—
A highwayman comes riding, up to the old inn-door.
Over the cobbles he clatters and clangs in the dark inn-yard.
And he taps with his whip on the shutters, but all is locked and barred.
He whistles a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there
But the landlord’s black-eyed daughter,
Bess, the landlord’s daughter,
Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair"
Highwayman
Alfred Noyes
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