Mewlips

Twista · 01-13-2004, 04:14 PM

I cant really remember but are the 'Mewlips' an evil race of cannibal spirits that wondered the marsh lands of middle earth? Are these the spirits found in the Dead Marshes? I cant remember...

***Jonathan*** · 01-13-2004, 08:15 PM

The Mewlips are mentioned in The Adventures of Tom Bombadill
Read about them here: The Mewlips.

Wayfarer · 01-13-2004, 11:37 PM

Whee. Mewlips.

The shadows where the Mewlips dwell
Are dark and wet as ink,
And slow and softly rings their bell,
As in the slime you sink.

You sink into the slime, who dare
To knock upon their door,
While down the grinning gargoyles stare
And noisome waters pour.

Beside the rotting river-strand
The drooping willows weep,
And gloomily the gore-crows stand
croaking in their sleep.

**Nurvingiel** · 01-13-2004, 11:57 PM

That's why I thought your sig was from "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil" Wayfarer. Because it is.

Wayfarer · 01-14-2004, 12:01 AM

The poem 'The Mewlips' appeared in that collection, yeah.

Shadowfax · 01-14-2004, 12:10 AM

I read "The Adventures of Tom B." a while ago and I really liked "The Mewlips": it's really creepy and eerie! and you don't really ever know who or what they are! just plain strange, I think.

Beor · 01-16-2004, 03:54 AM

I dont know for sure, but I think that Ol' Christopher Tolkien talkl about them in BOLT2, but, like I said, I'm not too sure. Let me check, and get back to ya. Give me 48 hours.

01-13-2004, 04:14 PM	#1
Twista Orodruin's Flame Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Kananaskis, AB Posts: 1,194	Mewlips I cant really remember but are the 'Mewlips' an evil race of cannibal spirits that wondered the marsh lands of middle earth? Are these the spirits found in the Dead Marshes? I cant remember... __________________ Council of Entmoot - Foreign Affairs Minister - 2004-05 Visit the Ye Olde Avatar Shop and The New One Dont tell me what I cannot do Two men are on a Island, they both see a "monster", one sees a bright light, and the other sees a dark cloud My name bares no reference to the music artist.

01-13-2004, 08:15 PM	#2
*Jonathan* Entmoot Attorney-General, Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 3,891	The Mewlips are mentioned in The Adventures of Tom Bombadill Read about them here: The Mewlips. __________________ An unwritten post is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody entry that’s ever been written. ☻

01-13-2004, 11:37 PM	#3
Wayfarer The Insufferable Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,333	Whee. Mewlips. The shadows where the Mewlips dwell Are dark and wet as ink, And slow and softly rings their bell, As in the slime you sink. You sink into the slime, who dare To knock upon their door, While down the grinning gargoyles stare And noisome waters pour. Beside the rotting river-strand The drooping willows weep, And gloomily the gore-crows stand croaking in their sleep. __________________ Disgraced he may be, yet is not dethroned, and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned Last edited by Wayfarer : 01-13-2004 at 11:41 PM.

01-14-2004, 12:01 AM	#5
Wayfarer The Insufferable Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,333	The poem 'The Mewlips' appeared in that collection, yeah. __________________ Disgraced he may be, yet is not dethroned, and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned

01-14-2004, 12:10 AM	#6
Shadowfax The Fleet-Footed Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: British Columbia Posts: 913	I read "The Adventures of Tom B." a while ago and I really liked "The Mewlips": it's really creepy and eerie! and you don't really ever know who or what they are! just plain strange, I think. __________________ Jesus saved me "To remain ignorant of things that happened before you were born is to remain a child" (Cicero, 106-43 B.C.) "Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth" (Picasso)

01-16-2004, 03:54 AM	#7
Beor founder of the color blue Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: E-Space Posts: 1,727	I dont know for sure, but I think that Ol' Christopher Tolkien talkl about them in BOLT2, but, like I said, I'm not too sure. Let me check, and get back to ya. Give me 48 hours. __________________ Well, there it is.