Tolkien’s Middle-earth timeline.
There, the Hobbits are lulled into a sleeplike state by the fog.
After these events, the Barrow-wights continue to haunt the Barrow-downs, filling them with a sinister presence.
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Why Are There Barrow-Wights in the Second Age of Middle-earth?
How Can Barrow-wights Be Defeated?
Whenever they are struck, though, the Barrow-wights immediately reform and continue their slow movements toward their enemies.
Epic drama set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’ follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth.
In the books, Barrow-wights simply can’t be killed, since they are already dead.
There is a being who seems to have extraordinary authority over them, though: Tom Bombadil.
Like many dark creatures in Middle-earth, Barrow-wights are also vulnerable to sunlight.
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