The Barrow-Wight: Servant of Melkor?

[nobody]

'Cold be hand and heart and bone,
and cold be sleep under stone:
never more to wake on stony bed,
never, till the Sun fails and the Moon is dead.
In the black wind the starts shall die,
and still on gold here let them lie,
till the dark lord lifts his hand
over dead sea and withered land.'-FoTR, Fog on the Barrow-downs

Now is it just me or does this sound awfully like the Dagor Dagorath? Melkor will return and destroy the Sun and Moon and the Barrow-wight, being evil, would probably have supported the idea of Melkor winning and 'lifting his hand over dead sea and withered land'. Does this mean that the spirit of the Barrow-wight once was a servant of Melkor? But then, how would the Witchking have enough power to control him and trap him in the body of a dead Dúnadan? Sauron himself could not have done it for he had not yet even returned to Dol Guldur and was very weak during the time the Witchking ruled in Angmar.

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 4:59 AM January 03, 2004: Message edited by: nobody ]