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Barrow-wights are wraith-like creatures in J. R. R. Tolkien's world of Middle-earth. In The Lord of the Rings, the four hobbits are trapped by a barrow-wight, ...
Tom Bombadil is a character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium.He first appeared in print in a 1934 poem called "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil", which also included The Lord of the Rings characters Goldberry (his wife), Old Man Willow (an evil tree in his forest) and the barrow-wight, from whom he rescues the hobbits. [1]
A wight is a being or thing. This general meaning is shared by cognate terms in Germanic languages, however the usage of the term varies greatly over time and between regions. This general meaning is shared by cognate terms in Germanic languages, however the usage of the term varies greatly over time and between regions.
Barrow A.F.C., an association football club based in Barrow-in-Furness; Barrow Raiders, a rugby league club based in Barrow-in-Furness; Barrow's Stores, in Birmingham, England; Barrow, a sculpture in Indianapolis by American artist Jill Viney; A castrated male domestic pig; A synonym for Tumulus, a burial mound
Leaving the refuge of Tom's house, they get lost in a fog and are caught by a barrow-wight in a barrow on the downs, but Frodo, awakening from the barrow-wight's spell, calls Tom Bombadil, who frees them and equips them with ancient swords from the barrow-wight's hoard. The Hobbits reach the village of Bree, where they encounter a Ranger named ...
A modern rendering is also barrow-wight, popularized by J. R. R. Tolkien in his novels, however, initially used for the draugr in Eiríkur Magnússon's and William Morris' 1869 translation of Grettis saga, long before Tolkien employed the term; [31] rendering Icelandic "Sótti haugbúinn með kappi" as "the barrow-wight setting on with hideous ...
The same goes, of course, for each other character who may get what Wikipedia policy calls a "passing mention": hardly "major" as far as the wight goes, which is the focus of concern for this article. Chiswick Chap 06:32, 9 August 2024 (UTC) How is that different from their appearances in the 2002 RPG and the 1991 Khraniteli? Those are even ...
Four early chapters visiting Buckland, Old Forest, and Barrow-downs, and meeting Tom Bombadil and the Barrow-wight; [14] one major "novelistic" [15] late chapter, "The Scouring of the Shire" Saruman's death shown, relocated to Isengard, in extended version [16] Themes: Heroic romance, inner moral struggle, [17] addictive nature of power (of the ...