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  2. Barrow-wight - Wikipedia

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    [17] [18] A barrow-wight features in the low-budget 1991 Russian adaptation of The Fellowship of the Ring, Khraniteli, apparently the first moving picture to include the character. [19] Barrow-wights have appeared in the second season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. VFX supervisor Jason Smith described their adaptation as "ancient ...

  3. Tom Bombadil - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Hell and Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    Steed suggests that Tom Bombadil's rescuing of the Hobbits from the dark spells of the undead Barrow-wight in The Lord of the Rings [T 8] is another "less immediately obvious" instance of the Harrowing of Hell motif. As Bombadil breaks the spell, he sings "Get out, you old Wight!

  5. 'Rings of Power' welcomes Tom Bombadil, more fan-favorite ...

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    The latest episode of "The Rings of Power" ushered in a slew of new characters, including the long-awaited live-action depiction of Tom Bombadil.

  6. Death and immortality in Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    [5] The deaths of major characters, including Boromir, Denethor, Gollum, Saruman, Sauron, Théoden, and Wormtongue all form "significant scenes", while Gandalf both dies and returns from the dead. [5] Mortality is confronted in the first chapter of The Lord of the Rings, as Bilbo Baggins states that he feels he needs "a holiday, a very long ...

  7. Radagast - Wikipedia

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    Tolkien's Radagast, with his affinity for animals, knowledge of herbs, and shape-changing abilities, has been compared to a shaman. [1] Altai shaman pictured.. Unfinished Tales explains that Radagast, like the other Wizards, came from Valinor around the year 1000 of the Third Age of Middle-earth and was one of the angelic Maiar.

  8. Tolkien and the Norse - Wikipedia

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    Treasures in the Norse sagas are often guarded by undead, "restless, vampire-like draugar", as in Grettis saga, recalling the barrow-wight in The Lord of the Rings. [16] Burns comments that the vague rumours of a "blood-drinking 'ghost'" in places where the monster Gollum had been is similarly draugar-like. The guarded barrows, if successfully ...

  9. List of weapons and armour in Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    [T 16] In The Lord of the Rings, the Red Arrow was a token used by Gondor to summon its allies in time of need. [T 17] In the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, the Red Arrow is omitted and its role is conflated with the Beacons of Gondor. [14] Hobbits "shot well with the bow". [T 18] The Shire sent archers to the battles of the Fall of Arnor. [T 19]