Reading “The Lord of the Rings”: Chapter 8: “Fog on the Barrow-downs”

The hobbits, having thoroughly enjoyed their stay with the jolly (if strange and sometimes unsettling) Tom Bombadil, now begin to embark on the next stage of their journey, making their way over the forbidding Barrow-downs. While things seem to be going their way at first, unfortunately they fall afoul of one of the malevolent Barrow-wights, who ensnares them and holds…