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The main hero of the new mini-album of the project "reforMAA" is a character of John Ronald Ruel Tolkien. Let's get acquainted.

The phantom of the famous Middle-earth world has Old Norse roots. The northern peoples called him Draugr or vǣttr. In Norway, farmers of the 19th century were still concerned about "vetter" (wights) around old viking barrows, when these were first excavated.

In the works of Tolkien (which are not limited to "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit"), Barrow-Wights are the evil spirits, which were sent to the Barrow-downs by the Witch-king of Angmar after Northern wars. Here, in the graves, they were waiting for an hour, when evil would arise. It was then that they had to awaken and stand on the side of the Dark Lord, using their blood-chilling abilities.

Barrow-Wights could attack, but they were easily defeated with good weapons.

They helped Angmar in the wars against the Arnor Kingdom of Artadine.

In the book "The Lord of the Rings: Brotherhood of the Ring" Frodo Baggins and company were trapped in the Barrow-downs, and nearly slain by a barrow-wight. It was mentioned in The Lord of the Rings Appendix A that Frodo was trapped in the cairn of the last prince of Cardolan; Merry's exclamation on waking from his trance suggests this. Frodo sliced off the wight's hand; then, when the wight extinguished the dim light in the cavern where the company was imprisoned, Frodo called upon Tom Bombadil, who expelled the wight from the barrow.

Alas, the characters were erased from the adaptation of Peter Jackson. Therefore, we devote our new work to the undeservedly forgotten ghosts of the mounds of Middle-earth.