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| - Barrow-wights appeared as dark, shadowy forms with glowing lights for eyes. They attempted to capture living beings and sacrifice them to whatever evil power they now worshiped (in Middle-earth, usually Morgoth), thus gaining the life energy of the victims, which is what wights "fed" on. As they drew energy, they became more corporeal, showing hands like claws and faces like skulls. If seen with magical means, they appeared as faded, pale versions of their former living selves. They possessed a Fear aura that was an intrinsic facet of their being; in addition, they could either paralyze or use sorcerous sleep on their victims to keep them immobile while the wights drained their life force. When all of the victim's constitution was gone, he died. Barrow-wights could use the actual weapons a
- The Barrow-wights were shape-shifting beings of darkness, similar in circumstance to Wraiths, who dwelt in dark places of Eriador such as the Barrow-downs. The characteristic of shape-shifter gave Barrow-wights the ability to reanimate whatever life-form they wished. The ones which attacked the four Hobbits reanimated the corpses of the Kings of the Barrows. Most often the Barrow-wight came on the unwary traveller in the guise of a dark phantom whose eyes were luminous and cold. The voice of the figure was at once horrible and hypnotic; its skeletal hand had a touch like ice and a grip like the iron jaws of a trap. Once under the spell, the victim had no will of his own. In this way the Barrow-wights drew the living into the tombs of the downs. A dismal choir of tortured souls could be hea
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| - The Barrow-wights were shape-shifting beings of darkness, similar in circumstance to Wraiths, who dwelt in dark places of Eriador such as the Barrow-downs. The characteristic of shape-shifter gave Barrow-wights the ability to reanimate whatever life-form they wished. The ones which attacked the four Hobbits reanimated the corpses of the Kings of the Barrows. Most often the Barrow-wight came on the unwary traveller in the guise of a dark phantom whose eyes were luminous and cold. The voice of the figure was at once horrible and hypnotic; its skeletal hand had a touch like ice and a grip like the iron jaws of a trap. Once under the spell, the victim had no will of his own. In this way the Barrow-wights drew the living into the tombs of the downs. A dismal choir of tortured souls could be heard inside the Barrow as, in the green half-light, the Barrow-wight laid his victim on a stone altar and bound him in chains of gold. He draped him in pale cloth and precious jewelry of the ancient dead, and with a sacrificial sword ended them. East of the Brandywine River beyond the Old Forest were the Barrow-downs, the most ancient burial ground of men in Middle-earth. There were no trees nor water there, but only grass and turf covering dome-shaped hills that were crowned with monoliths and great rings of bone-white stone. These hills were the burial mounds that were made in the First Age of the Sun for the Kings of Men. For many ages the Barrow-downs were sacred and revered, until out of the Witch-Kingdom of Angmar many terrible and tortured spirits fled across Middle-earth, desperately searching to hide from the ravening light of the Sun. Demons whose bodies had been destroyed looked for other bodies in which their evil spirits could dwell. And so it was that the Barrow-downs became a haunted and terrible place. The demons became Barrow-wights, the Undead who animated the bones and jeweled armor of the ancient Kings of Men who had lived in the First Age of the Sun. In the darkness they were powerful spirits and they could be held at bay only with the spell of strong incantations, such as Tom Bombadil's song. However, normally they could be destroyed only by exposure to light, the entity they hated and feared the most. The Barrow-wights were lost and tortured spirits, and their last chance to remain upon Earth depended on the dark security of burial vaults. Once the stone chamber was broken open, light would pour in on the Barrow-wights and they would fade like mist before the sun and be gone forever.
- Barrow-wights appeared as dark, shadowy forms with glowing lights for eyes. They attempted to capture living beings and sacrifice them to whatever evil power they now worshiped (in Middle-earth, usually Morgoth), thus gaining the life energy of the victims, which is what wights "fed" on. As they drew energy, they became more corporeal, showing hands like claws and faces like skulls. If seen with magical means, they appeared as faded, pale versions of their former living selves. They possessed a Fear aura that was an intrinsic facet of their being; in addition, they could either paralyze or use sorcerous sleep on their victims to keep them immobile while the wights drained their life force. When all of the victim's constitution was gone, he died. Barrow-wights could use the actual weapons and magical items buried with them.
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