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Merry's Barrow Dream
After Tom rescues Frodo & Co from the Barrow Wight, and then commands the sleeping threesome to awake, Merry says;
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So - what happened? Was Merry somehow connected with a remnant of that attack? A spirit that had remained? A lingering memory attached to some object? What triggered his dream? Merely hobbit lore about the demise of Cardolan? Ironic too - that Merry was the one whose blade, recovered from that Barrow, struck the Witch-King whose forces had once assailed the Barrow, slaying him along with Eowyn.
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Have a look at this old thread, Val.
http://www.entmoot.com/showthread.ph...ighlight=Merry I think some of your questions are answered there. Last edited by Gordis : 09-19-2007 at 10:38 PM. |
09-19-2007, 11:04 PM | #3 |
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Thank you Gordis - I thought we had discussed this in some capacity before, but didn't remember just where. And - I thought I had jumped in, but I don't see myself there.
I'm inclined against a Dunedain spirit though - I don't see how one (or more) could have been trapped there after death. It was over 200 years later before the Wights were even sent to inhabit these barrows (after the Great Plague in 1636). I'm doing a re-read now, and going over this must have reminded me of the earlier discussion.
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09-21-2007, 01:19 AM | #4 |
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At least, Val, I think we are in agreement that the vision didn't come from the Wight. 1. It was not there (yet) when the Men of Carn Dum attacked the Barrows (1409) and 2. it was not there (already sent away by Tom) when Merry had his vision.
I don't insist on the Dunedain spirit idea. Perhaps it was just a vision - prompted by clothes and rings and things the Wight had put on Merry, or by the Barrows themselves - the whole area. Like later Legolas said that Hollin stones still remembered the Mirdain... |
09-21-2007, 03:51 AM | #5 |
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I like your suggestion of an "imprint", like the Hollin stones.
It's a lovely hint of backstory, one of the vast canvasses that Tolkien sketches very vaguely and leaves to our imagination. The fact that it was Merry, the most "martial" of the hobbits who had the vision, suggests perhaps that he was most open to this sort of imprint. He knew the most about the Old Forest, and perhaps knew a bit more about the history from the Shire's early days. |
10-11-2007, 11:01 AM | #6 |
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In the computer game "LotR:Battle for Middle-earth II - Rise of the Witchking" one of the campaign missions ends like this: Morgomir and wights have cornered an Arnor prince (can´t remember the name now) and Morgomir slays the prince with Morgul Blade, turning him into a powerful wraith, Karsh, "the Whisperer". Of course it´s made up by the EA folks, but I like it.
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