Malevolent, shape-shifting creatures of darkness who resemble wraiths and dwell in tainted burial mounds.
Barrow-wights Quotes in The Fellowship of the Ring
The The Fellowship of the Ring quotes below are all either spoken by Barrow-wights or refer to Barrow-wights. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Note: all page numbers and citation info for the quotes below refer to the Random House edition of The Fellowship of the Ring published in 1954.
Book 1, Chapter 8
Quotes
There is a seed of courage hidden (often deeply, it is true) in the heart of the fattest and most timid Hobbit, waiting for some final and desperate danger to make it grow. Frodo was neither very fat nor very timid; indeed, though he did not know it, Bilbo (and Gandalf) had thought him the best Hobbit in the Shire. He thought he had come to the end of his adventure, and a terrible end, but the thought hardened him. He found himself stiffening, as if for a final spring; he no longer felt limp like a helpless prey.
Related Characters:
Frodo Baggins, Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo Baggins
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The One Ring
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