One thing I noted in The Two Towers movie was that Gollum was reciting the barrow-wight’s dialogue from the scene in FOTR where the hobbits were trapped on the Barrow Downs.
Anybody know why that was done? It wasn’t completely inappropriate, happening in the dead marshes, but it kinda took me aback.
Ironic, given that they leapfrogged the whole barrow-wight thing in FOTR. Isn’t that were Merry & Pippin picked up their knives, one of which will be used to kill a wraith?
I noticed that too. My guess is that Peter Jackson just thought the barrow-wight’s rhyme was too cool not to put in at some point even if he couldn’t work in the actual scene without derailing the story more than he had.
Yes, it was. The barrow was a tomb of a prince of Arthedain (formerly part of Arnor), who was of Numenorian descent. they’d fought against the Witch-king of Angmar (The chief Nazgul) before they were defeated.
anyone want to refresh the memories of those of us forgetting these lines?
I think that’s as much as Gollum gets out…