Wights

[The Barrow-Wight]

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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/bluepal.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Wights

The wights of the Barrow-Downs were evil spirts sent there from Angmar and Rhudaur by the Witch-King of Angmar. They entered the burial mounds and dwelled there, trapping unwary (and wary) travelers and slaying them with spells of death.

The mounds themselves were quite ancient, built and used by the forefathers of the Edain as burial chambers. When the Edain came back to Middle-Earth after the destruction of Beleriand they used the Downs for the same purpose - internment of dead. It is thought that the wight that caught Frodo and friends was in the grave of the last Prince of Cardolan.

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