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The literature scholar Patrick Callahan notes that the whole Bombadil episode seems disconnected from the rest of the story, but that the barrow-wight story resembles the final fight in Beowulf, when the king, now old, goes out to do battle with the barrow-dragon. He dies, but the funeral-barrow's treasure is recovered and the curse on it is ...
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]
Blanche Barrow (born Bennie Iva Caldwell; January 1, 1911 – December 24, 1988) was the wife of the elder brother of Clyde Barrow, known as Buck. [1] He became her second husband after his release from prison after a pardon.
Barrow-wights (from Middle English wight, a man) are dark spirits sent by the Witch-king of Angmar to possess and animate the bodies and bones of the former kings of the Dúnedain. These undead monsters haunt the Barrow-downs near Bree.
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 ...
Emily Ann Banks [1] [2] (January 23, 1933 - September 17, 2023) was an American actress and model. She is known for the films Gunfight in Abilene and Live a Little, Love a Little, [3] and her appearance as Yeoman Tonia Barrows in the Star Trek episode "Shore Leave."
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 ...
Dame Jocelyn Anita Barrow DBE (15 April 1929 – 9 April 2020) [2] was a British educator, community activist and politician, who was the Director for UK Development at Focus Consultancy Ltd. She was the first black woman to be a governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and was founder and Deputy Chair of the Broadcasting ...