Neekerbreekers

Neekerbreekers
The existence of "Neekerbreekers" is first mentioned in Chapter 11 of Book 1 in the Fellowship of the Ring. As Strider leads the hobbits to Weathertop, their journey takes them through the Midgewater Marshes. There in the marshes, the group decides to make camp. As night falls, most of the group find themselves unable to sleep because of the "neekerbreekers," as Sam called them. They are described as the evil relatives of the cricket, thousands of them that go "neek-breek breek-neek". It's quite possible that these creatures are really katydids or some other locust from the Acrididae family.