The Mewlips

[Hilde Bracegirdle]

Does anyone else remember the album with Tolkien reading this poem? Truly creepy.

Originally Posted by Rumil

If they did exist they must be somewhere marshy, perhaps the remoter parts of Midgewater? Alternatively an ancient memory of the Gladden Fields.

I was thinking Midgewater Marshes as well, but it seems that it might be on the wrong side of the mountains in relation to long held Hobbit settlements that spring to mind. Gladden Fields would seem to make more sense in that regard.
Perhaps this legend was handed down from the hobbits' more nomadic days, as Rumil suggests?

Fun to think of the poem in relation to background history of ME, but it is all fiction in the end, and whether fact or myth, I doubt Tolkien even knew the answer. But it is interesting stuff.