Talk:Angmar

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[edit] Barrow Wights and Carn Dûm

The last paragraph in this article is wrong. Merry did not think that he had been "captured" by the men of Carn Dûm-- while in the Barrow under the Wight's spell, he was dressed in the clothes of the lord interred in the Barrow and was dreaming of that individual's death as if it were his own. "Ah! The spear in my heart!" He quickly "came to" after Bombadil took them out of the Barrow and back into the light.

Also, Tom Bombadil does not suggest that the Barrow Wights are the spirits of men from Carn Dûm. Tolkien only states in LOTR that the Wights were evil spirits. Spirits of men (from Carn Dûm or elsewhere), lesser Maiar that became servants of Sauron after Morgoth's fall-- it doesn't say. I personally believe that the Wights were minor wraiths, either men--probably Black Numenoreans--that became enamoured of Sauron and sorcery, and didn't die, but slowly became 'undead'; or were ringwraiths like the Nazgul, but bearers of the "lesser rings" that Sauron apparently made and distributed before forging the great Rings of Power. They might even have been men wounded by Morgul weapons that subsequently faded into the world of the undead. But it is left unclear.169.253.4.21 (talk) 20:57, 15 May 2008 (UTC)TexxasFinn