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"Cold be hand and heart and bone
and cold be sleep under stone
never more to wake on stony bed
never, till the Sun fails and the Moon is dead
In the black wind the stars shall die
and still be gold here let them lie
till the Dark Lord lifts his hand
over dead sea and withered land."

—The dismal, tortured chant of the Barrow-wight

The Barrow-wights were shape-shifting beings of darkness, similar in disposition to Wraiths, who dwelt in dark places of Eriador such as the Barrow-downs.

Description

Wights appeared as dark phantoms whose eyes were luminous and cold, and whose voice was horrible yet hypnotic; their skeletal hands had a touch like ice and a deadly grip. Victims under a Wight's spell would lose their will; in this way the Barrow-wights drew the living into the tombs of the downs. Some, if not all, victims were laid on a stone altar and bound in chains of gold, to then be draped in pale cloth and jewelry of ancient dead, and killed by a wight with a sacrificial sword.

Post-98385-1260172999 — A Barrow-wight in *The Battle for Middle-earth II*

East of the Brandywine River beyond the Old Forest were the Barrow-downs, the most ancient burial ground of Men in Middle-earth. There were no trees nor water there, but only grass and turf covering dome-shaped hills crowned with monoliths and great rings of white stone. These hills were the burial mounds that were made in the First Age of the Sun for the Edain, and later in Second and Third Ages for the Kings of Men.

Screen shot 2010-12-11 at 11.16 — Barrow-wights as portrayed in the LOTR Trading Card Game

In the darkness, wights were powerful spirits, resisted only by strong incantations such as Tom Bombadil's song. Dependent for many centuries on the dark security of burial vaults, they feared the sunlight, and would be diminished in exposure to it.

History

The Barrow-wights began appearing in the Barrow-downs after the Dúnedain of Cardolan succumbed to the ravages of the Great Plague. In roughly TA 1409, evil spirits were sent by the Witch-king of Angmar, who wished to keep the Dúnedain from resettling the region.

On September 28 of 3018, Frodo Baggins and his companions, Sam Gamgee, Merry, and Pippin, while passing through the Barrow-downs, were captured by wights and trapped in what was believed to be the cairn of the last prince of Cardolan.^[1]

There they were almost slain by a wight; three of the Hobbits had been lain in a barrow filled with a strange green light and were dressed in white robes and wore jewels and gold and had a sword across their necks. The wight had finished an incantation, and was preparing to finish them off when Frodo summoned up the courage to slice off its hand; he then called upon Tom Bombadil when the wight extinguished the dim light in the cavern. Bombadil performed a song in the barrow and, through the rare power of his singing, caused the wight to flee with a shriek; he then gave the hobbits swords and spread out the gold and treasures from the barrow on the grass, so that the barrow's spell was broken and no wight could make habitat there.^[2]^[3]

Behind the scenes

It is possible that the Witch-king himself had visited the Barrow-downs during the Ringwraiths' search for Frodo, and that it was he who had roused the Barrow-wights to be vigilant for trespassers on their land.

Other versions of the legendarium

Due to his inspiration from the Hrómundar saga Gripssonar, during the writing of The Lord of the Rings Tolkien at first saw a link between the Wights and the Ringwraiths, initially describing the Black Riders as "horsed Wights", but the suggestion that they were the same kind of creatures was dropped in the published work.

Inspirations

The concept of a burial mound housing evil spirits was not a new one created by Tolkien. The Barrow-wights themselves resemble a creature in Germanic Mythology known in Norse as Draugar (singular Draugr).

Another likely related creature from Germanic and Slavic folklore was the Mahr (also called an Alp), a vampire-like creature said to rise from its barrow after dark to plague the sleeping and drink their blood. Their chief vulnerability was exposure to sunlight, like the Barrow-wights of Tolkien's mythology.

Etymology

The term Barrow-wights was based on the Old Norse "Draugr". Barrow refers to the burial mounds they inhabited and wight is the modern derivation of wiht, an Old English word for "living being" or "creature" (it does not mean "spirit" or "ghost"; it is cognate to modern German "Wicht", meaning "unpleasant person"). Tolkien likely borrowed the concept from Norse mythology, specifically from Waking of Angantyr, the Grettis Saga, or the Hrómundar saga Gripssonar.

Appearances in adaptations

A Barrow-wight Archer from *The Lord of the Rings Online*

Khraniteli, 1991
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Volume 1 SNES 1994
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (video game), 2002
The Hobbit: The Video Game, 2003 - "Wight Lord" (Spiders & Flies level boss)
The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring, 2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, 2006
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, The Rise of the Witch-king, 2006
- Karsh, a fictional Wraith-hero from Cardolan who is portrayed identically in form to the game's Barrow-wights
The Lord of the Rings Online
- Sambrog, a non-canon wight-boss
- Skorgrim, a non-canon wight, formerly a Dwarf lord
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, 2011
- The Barrow-wight Lord, a non-canon wight-boss who takes control of Kilaran
LEGO The Lord of the Rings: The Video Game, 2012 (downloadable character)
LEGO The Hobbit: The Video Game, 2014 (unlockable character)

Translations

Foreign Language	Translated name
Czech	Mohyloví duchové
Danish	Begravelseshøjen-vætter/Dyssegæster
Dutch	Grafgeesten
Estonian	Kääpavahid
Finnish	Haudanhaamut
French	Esprits des Tertres/Etres des Galgals
German	Grabunholde
Greek	Μπάροου Γουάιτς
Hebrew	רפאי הכוכים
Italian	Spettri dei Tumuli
Japanese	塚人 ?
Norwegian	Haugvetter
Polish	Upiory Kurhanów
Portuguese	Coisas Tumulares
Russian	Умертвия
Slovak	Mohylové príšery
Spanish	Tumularios
Swedish	Kummelgastar
Turkish	Höyüklü Kişiler

Races of Arda

Free Peoples of the World:

Servants of the Shadow:

References

↑ The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, I: The Númenórean Kings, (iii): Eriador, Arnor, and the Heirs of Isildur
↑ The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book One, Chapter VIII: "Fog on the Barrow-downs"
↑ The Atlas of Middle-earth, The Lord of the Rings, "On the Barrow-downs"

[1] The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, I: The Númenórean Kings, (iii): Eriador, Arnor, and the Heirs of Isildur

[2] The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book One, Chapter VIII: "Fog on the Barrow-downs"

[3] The Atlas of Middle-earth, The Lord of the Rings, "On the Barrow-downs"

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+{{NeedsReferences}}[[File:Wight.jpg|thumb|right|[[Frodo Baggins]] attacked by a Barrow-wight|245x245px]]
-{{race
-|image=[[File:Wight.jpg|250px]]
-|name= Barrow-wights
-|dominions= [[Barrow Downs]] (formerly)
-|height= Possibly 5-6'
-|length=
-|skincolor= Pale white (gaunt)
-|haircolor= Black (usually)
-|feathers=
-|distinctions= Tall, slim, skeletal, undead
-}}
-{{Quote|Cold be hand and heart and bone <br /> and cold be sleep under stone <br /> never more to wake on stony bed <br /> never, till the Sun fails and the Moon is dead <br /> In the black wind the stars shall die <br /> and still be gold here let them lie <br /> till the Dark Lord lifts his hand <br /> over dead sea and withered land.|The dismal, tortured chant of a Barrow-wight.}}
+{{quote|Cold be hand and heart and bone <br /> and cold be sleep under stone <br /> never more to wake on stony bed <br /> never, till the Sun fails and the Moon is dead <br /> In the black wind the stars shall die <br /> and still be gold here let them lie <br /> till the Dark Lord lifts his hand <br /> over dead sea and withered land.|The dismal, tortured chant of the Barrow-wight}}
-The '''Barrow-Wights '''were beings of darkness that could enter the eye, heart and mind and crush the will. They were sent by the [[Witch King of Angmar]] to haunt the [[Barrow Downs]] after the fall of [[Cardolan]], and are encountered only in the first volume of the Lord of the Rings.
-==Description==
-[[File:Witn_2013-04-14_10-45-47-46.jpg|thumb|left|Barrow-wight in ''[[The Lord of the Rings: War in the North]]''.]]
-The wights that attacked the four Hobbits in ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' were reanimations of the corpses of the Kings of the Barrows. Most often the Barrow-wight came on the unwary traveller in the guise of a dark phantom whose eyes were luminous and cold. The voice of the figure was at once horrible and hypnotic; its skeletal hand had a touch like ice and a grip like the iron jaws of a trap.
+The '''Barrow-wights '''were shape-shifting beings of darkness, similar in disposition to [[Ringwraiths|Wraiths]], who dwelt in dark places of [[Eriador]] such as the [[Barrow-downs]].
-[[File:Barrow_lord.jpg|thumb|right|Barrow-wight lord in ''[[The Lord of the Rings: War in the North]]''.]]
-Once under the spell of the creature, the victim had no will of his own. In this way the Barrow-wights drew the living into the treasure tombs of the downs. A dismal choir of tortured souls could be heard inside the Barrow as, in the green half-light, the Barrow-wight laid his victim on a stone altar and bound him in chains of [[gold]]. He draped him in pale cloth and precious jewellery of the ancient dead, and with a sacrificial [[sword]], ended them.
-==History==
+== Description ==
+Wights appeared as dark phantoms whose eyes were luminous and cold, and whose voice was horrible yet hypnotic; their skeletal hands had a touch like ice and a deadly grip. Victims under a Wight's spell would lose their will; in this way the Barrow-wights drew the living into the tombs of the downs. Some, if not all, victims were laid on a stone altar and bound in chains of [[gold]], to then be draped in pale cloth and jewelry of ancient dead, and killed by a wight with a sacrificial [[sword]].
-[[File:Post-98385-1260172999.jpg|thumb|left|A wight as seen in the BFME games]]
+[[File:Post-98385-1260172999.jpg|thumb|left|A Barrow-wight in ''The Battle for Middle-earth II'']]
-East of the [[Brandywine River]] beyond the [[Old Forest]] were the [[Barrow-downs]], the most ancient burial ground of men in [[Middle-earth]]. There were neither trees nor water there, but only grass and turf covering dome-shaped hills that were crowned with monoliths and great rings of bone-white stone. These hills were the burial mounds that were made in the [[First Age]] of the Sun for the Kings of Men. For many ages the Barrow-downs were sacred and revered, until out of the Witch-Kingdom of Angmar many terrible and tortured spirits fled across Middle-earth, desperately searching to hide from the ravening light of the [[Sun]]. Demons whose bodies had been destroyed looked for other bodies in which their evil spirits could dwell. And so it was that the Barrow-downs became a haunted and terrible place. The demons became Barrow-wights, the [[Undead]] who animated the bones and jeweled armor of the ancient Kings of Men who had lived in the First Age of the Sun.
+East of the [[Brandywine River]] beyond the [[Old Forest]] were the [[Barrow-downs]], the most ancient burial ground of Men in [[Middle-earth]]. There were no trees nor water there, but only grass and turf covering dome-shaped hills crowned with monoliths and great rings of white stone. These hills were the burial mounds that were made in the [[First Age]] of the Sun for the [[Edain]], and later in [[Second Age|Second]] and [[Third Age|Third]] Ages for the [[Dúnedain|Kings of Men]].
-[[File:Screen_shot_2010-12-11_at_11.16.42_AM.png|thumb|The Barrow-wight Decipher Card picture]]
+[[File:Screen_shot_2010-12-11_at_11.16.42_AM.png|thumb|Barrow-wights as portrayed in the [[The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game|LOTR Trading Card Game]]]]
-In the darkness they were powerful spirits and they could be held at bay only with the spell of strong incantations. [[Tom Bombadil]] could perform the following with a song. However, normally they could be destroyed only by exposure to light, and it was light they hated and feared the most. The Barrow-wights were lost and tortured spirits and their last chance to remain on Earth depended on the dark security of their burial vaults. Once the stone chamber was broken open, light would pour in on the Barrow-wights and they would fade like mist before the sun and be gone forever.
+In the darkness, wights were powerful spirits, resisted only by strong incantations such as [[Tom Bombadil]]'s song. Dependent for many centuries on the dark security of burial vaults, they feared the sunlight, and would be diminished in exposure to it.
-The Barrow-wights began appearing in the Barrow-downs after the [[Dúnedain]] of [[Cardolan]] succumbed to the ravages of the [[Great Plague]]. They were put there by sorcerers of Angmar who corrupted the souls of the inhabitants of the
+== History ==
-[[Barrow-downs]]. The sorcerers were sent by the [[Witch-king of Angmar]], who wished to keep the Dúnedain away
-from the downs.
+The Barrow-wights began appearing in the Barrow-downs after the [[Dúnedain]] of [[Cardolan]] succumbed to the ravages of the [[Great Plague]]. In roughly [[TA 1409]], evil spirits were sent by the [[Witch-king of Angmar]], who wished to keep the Dúnedain from resettling the region.
-On September 28, [[3018]] [[Frodo Baggins]] and his companions; [[Sam Gamgee]], [[Merry Brandybuck]], and [[Peregrin Took|Pippin Took]] while passing through the Barrow-downs were captured one by one by the Barrow-wights and trapped in what was believed to be the cairn of the last prince of Cardolan.
+On [[September 28]] of [[3018]], [[Frodo Baggins]] and his companions, [[Sam Gamgee]], [[Merry Brandybuck|Merry]], and [[Peregrin Took|Pippin]], while passing through the Barrow-downs, were captured by wights and trapped in what was believed to be the cairn of the last prince of Cardolan.<ref>''[[The Lord of the Rings]], [[Appendix A]]'', I: The Númenórean Kings, (iii): Eriador, Arnor, and the Heirs of Isildur</ref>
-There they were almost slain by a wight; three of the Hobbits had been lain in a barrow filled with a strange green light and were dressed in white robes and wore jewels and gold and had a sword across their necks. The wight had finished an [[Wight's Chant|incantation]], and was preparing to finish them off when Frodo summoned up the courage to slice off its hand; he then called upon [[Tom Bombadil]] when the wight extinguished the dim light in the cavern.
+[[File:Upbarrowwight.gif|thumb|200px|A Barrow-wight]]
-Bombadil performed some kind of [[Tom Bombadil's Songs|exorcism]] on the barrow, which caused the wight to flee with a shriek; he then gave the hobbits [[Barrow-blades|swords]] and then spread out the gold and treasures from the barrow on the grass so that the barrow's spell was broken and no Wight would return to it.
+There they were almost slain by a wight; three of the Hobbits had been lain in a barrow filled with a strange green light and were dressed in white robes and wore jewels and gold and had a sword across their necks. The wight had finished an [[Cold be hand and heart and bone|incantation]], and was preparing to finish them off when Frodo summoned up the courage to slice off its hand; he then called upon [[Tom Bombadil]] when the wight extinguished the dim light in the cavern. Bombadil performed a [[Tom Bombadil's songs|song]] in the barrow and, through the rare power of his singing, caused the wight to flee with a shriek; he then gave the hobbits [[Barrow-blades|swords]] and spread out the gold and treasures from the barrow on the grass, so that the barrow's spell was broken and no wight could make habitat there.<ref>''[[The Lord of the Rings]], [[The Fellowship of the Ring (novel)|The Fellowship of the Ring]]'', Book One, Chapter VIII: "[[Fog on the Barrow-downs]]"</ref><ref>''[[The Atlas of Middle-earth]]'', The Lord of the Rings, "On the Barrow-downs"</ref>
-== Behind the Scenes ==
-[[File:Upbarrowwight.gif|thumb|200px|Battle for Middle Earth wight icon.]]
+== Behind the scenes ==
-They were probably corrupted spirits of the [[Dunedain|Dúnedain]] who the graves belonged to.  It is possible that the tombs were inhabited by oathbreakers as well; things that betrayed Earnur in the battle of Fornost.
+It is possible that the [[Witch-king]] himself had visited the Barrow-downs during the Ringwraiths' search for Frodo, and that it was he who had roused the Barrow-wights to be vigilant for trespassers on their land.
 === Other versions of the legendarium ===
-Due to his inspiration from ''Hrómundar saga Gripssonar'', during the writing of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' Tolkien at first foresaw a link between the Wights and the [[Nazgûl|Ringwraiths]], initially describing the Black Riders as horsed Wights, but the suggestion that they were the same kind of creatures was dropped in the published work.  In the final work there remained a link between them: the wights were now spirits sent by the [[Witch-king]].
+Due to his inspiration from the ''Hrómundar saga Gripssonar'', during the writing of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' [[J.R.R. Tolkien|Tolkien]] at first saw a link between the Wights and the [[Nazgûl|Ringwraiths]], initially describing the Black Riders as "horsed Wights", but the suggestion that they were the same kind of creatures was dropped in the published work.
-=== Inspiration ===
+=== Inspirations ===
-The concept of a burial mound housing evil spirits was not a new one created by [[Tolkien]].
+The concept of a burial mound housing evil spirits was not a new one created by Tolkien. The Barrow-wights themselves resemble a creature in Germanic Mythology known in Norse as ''Draugar'' (singular ''Draugr'').
-The Barrow-wights themselves are based on a similar creature in Germanic Mythology known in Norse as Draugar (the singular being Draugr).
+Another likely related creature from Germanic and Slavic folklore was the ''Mahr'' (also called an ''Alp''), a [[vampire]]-like creature said to rise from its barrow after dark to plague the sleeping and drink their blood. Their chief vulnerability was exposure to sunlight, like the Barrow-wights of  [[Tolkien Mythology|Tolkien's mythology]].
-They were said to be evil spirits residing in the bodies of dead heroes and kings and usually (but not universally) unharmed by conventional weapons.  The defeat of a Draugr was not always permanent; they could return to plague the living if certain actions were not performed after the Draugr was vanquished.
-The usual means of destroying a Draugr was to cut off its head and to burn the body, for only then would the evil spirit be prevented from returning to the body.
+==Etymology==
-Another, probably related, creature from Germanic and Slavic folklore was the Mahr (also called an Alp), a vampire-like creature that was said to rise from its barrow after dark to plague the sleeping and drink their blood.  The primary way to vanquish them was to open their Barrow to the rays of the Sun, much like the Barrow-wight from Tolkien's mythology.
+The term '''''Barrow-wights''''' was based on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norse Old Norse] "Draugr". ''Barrow'' refers to the burial mounds they inhabited and ''wight'' is the modern derivation of ''wiht,'' an Old English word for "living being" or "creature" (it does not mean "spirit" or "ghost"; it is cognate to modern German "Wicht", meaning "unpleasant person"). Tolkien likely borrowed the concept from Norse mythology, specifically from ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hervararkvi%C3%B0a Waking of Angantyr,]'' the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grettis_saga Grettis Saga], or the ''Hrómundar saga Gripssonar''.
-A very similar creature in Japanese mythology is the ''onryo,'' as they are undead spirits which dwell in darkness and are seemingly affected by the Sun.  The ''onryo'' of Japan are deceased women, and have returned to Earth in a desire for vengeance.  These spirits can also possess the living, the dead, and the undead.
+==Appearances in adaptations==
+[[File:Barrow-wight_Archer.jpg|thumb|A Barrow-wight Archer from ''[[The Lord of the Rings Online]]'']]
-=== Etymology ===
+*''[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khraniteli Khraniteli]'', 1991
-The name Barrow-wights was based on the Old Norse Draugr. ''Barrow'' refers to the burial mounds they inhabited and ''wight'' is the modern derivation of ''wiht,'' an Old English word for "living being" or "creature" (it does not mean "spirit" or "ghost"; it is cognate to modern German "Wicht", meaning "unpleasant person"). Tolkien borrowed this concept from Norse mythology, see e.g. ''Waking of Angantyr'' and ''Hrómundar saga Gripssonar''.
+*''[[J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Volume 1]]'' SNES 1994
+*''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (video game)|The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' [[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (video game)|(video game)]], 2002
-==Portrayal in Adaptations==
+*''[[The Hobbit (2003 video game)|The Hobbit: The Video Game]]'', 2003 - "Wight Lord" (Spiders & Flies level boss)
-===Translations around the World===
+*''[[War of the Ring (video game)|The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring]]'', 2003
+*''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II]]'', 2006
+*''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II: The Rise of the Witch-king|The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, The Rise of the Witch-king]]'', 2006
+**[[Karsh]], a fictional Wraith-hero from [[Cardolan]] who is portrayed identically in form to the game's Barrow-wights
+*''[[The Lord of the Rings Online]]''
+**Sambrog, a non-canon wight-boss
+**Skorgrim, a non-canon wight, formerly a Dwarf lord
+*''[[The Lord of the Rings: War in the North]]'', 2011
+**The Barrow-wight Lord, a non-canon wight-boss who takes control of Kilaran
+*''[[LEGO The Lord of the Rings: The Video Game]]'', 2012 (downloadable character)
+*''[[LEGO The Hobbit: The Video Game]]'', 2014 (unlockable character)
+==Translations==
-{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
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-!Foreign Language
+<!--<div style="overflow:auto; height:200px;">-->
-!Translated name
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+| width="300" |'''Foreign Language'''
+| width="300" |'''Translated name'''
 |-
+|Czech
-|Portuguese (Brazil)
+|Mohyloví duchové
-|Criaturas Tumulares
 |-
+|Danish
-|Portuguese (Portugal)
+|Begravelseshøjen-vætter/Dyssegæster
-|Criaturas das Antas
 |-
+|Dutch
-|Spanish (Spain and Latin America)
+|Grafgeesten
-|Tumularios
+|-
+|Estonian
+|Kääpavahid
+|-
+|Finnish
+|Haudanhaamut
 |-
 |French
-|Êtres des Galgals
+|Esprits des Tertres/Etres des Galgals
 |-
 |German
+|Grabunholde
-|Grabunhold
-|}
+|-
+|Greek
+|Μπάροου Γουάιτς
+|-
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+|רפאי הכוכים
+|-
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+|Spettri dei Tumuli
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+|塚人 ?
+|-
+|Norwegian
+|Haugvetter
+|-
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+|Upiory Kurhanów
+|-
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+|Coisas Tumulares
+|-
+|Russian
+|Умертвия
+|-
+|Slovak
+|Mohylové príšery
+|-
+|Spanish
+|Tumularios
+|-
+|Swedish
+|Kummelgastar
+|-
+|Turkish
+|Höyüklü Kişiler
+|}
+</div>
-== Appearances ==
+{{Clear}}
-*''[[The Fellowship of the Ring (novel)|The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (video game)|Video Game]]''
-*''[[War of the Ring (video game)|The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring]]''
+{{Races}}
-*''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II]]''
-*''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Battle_for_Middle-earth_II:_The_Rise_of_the_Witch-king The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, Rise of the Witch-King]''
-*''[[The Lord of the Rings Online]]''
-*''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]''
-*''Lord of the Rings: War in the North''
 ==References==
+<references />
-[[File:Barrow-wight_Archer.jpg|thumb|A Barrow-wight Archer
-from ''The Lord of the Rings Online'']]
+[[de:Grabunholde]]
-*''[[The Fellowship of the Ring (novel)|The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]''
+[[es:Tumularios]]
-*''[[The Atlas of Middle-earth]]'' pgs. 122-23
+[[it:Spettri dei Tumuli]]
+[[nl:Grafgeesten]]
+[[pl:Upiory Kurhanów]]
+[[ru:Умертвия]]
+[[Category:Monsters]]
-== External link ==
+[[Category:Undead apparitions]]
-*{{TGlink|Barrow-wights}}
-[[de:Grabunhold]]
-[[Category:Minions of Angmar]]
-[[Category:Undead Apparitions]]
-[[Category:Races]]
 [[Category:Servants of Sauron]]
-[[Category:Demons]]
+[[Category:Minions of Angmar]]