Talk:Dead Marshes

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The German Ardapedia states that Sindarin for Dead Marshes (German: Totensümpfe) is Loeg Firn. Can anybody confirm that (i.e., give a source)? (According to the On-line Sindarin search engine and another Sindarin-English dictionary, Loeg = pool / pools (of a marsh), and fern (pl. firn) = dead person, so that translation is at least plausible — 15:16, 1 January 2006 (UTC)) — TowerDragon 23:23, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm going to remove the part where it say's that Gollum tried to eat the bodies. Sam assumeed that of Gollum, Gollum never said it himself. K...

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What's the name of the dead Elf that tries to pull Frodo under in Peter Jackson's The Two Towers? Is it Gil-Galad or someone else? Scorpionman 01:45, 26 June 2006 (UTC)