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Originally Posted by Pitchwife
Fog on the Barrow-Downs:
The whole chapter up to Tom's intervention is among the scariest stuff Tolkien has ever written, and I'm not sure anything we see in Moria or Mordor tops it.
Also of course the Barrow-Wight's verse, which should by rights be our national anthem!
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Agreed! The
Cold be heart and hand and bone is probably my favorite poem (more like an incantation but still) in
Lord of the Rings.