![]() Players wandering the Chetwood should be wary, for this beast could slay an entire fellowship should they enter unprepared. Many an unwary woodsman has vanished in the Chetwood, taken by the evil Baugarch.īaugarch was created by the designers of The Lord of the Rings Online?: Shadows of Angmar. Baugarch is feared by all who dwell there, even the wild wolves who make their den to the west of the Blackwold encampment. Wandering through the Chetwood and the Blackwold camp is a vile Warg that came out of the North. The entire brigand band put together, however, is not as much of a threat as the guardian left there by ɯgan of Angmar. Its presence was first recorded during Balin’s expedition to Moria, but it is possible that it lived in the waters much before that.In the Chetwood, the Blackwold brigands have established an encampment from which they assail the various villages of Bree-land. As a result, the Watcher may have been one of the Nameless Things that climbed its way up to the surface through these tunnels. It is possible that, as the pool of water grew deeper, the rocks underneath may have cracked, forming tunnels to the old passages beneath Moria. The dark lake beside the West-gate of Moria was actually created by the damming of the Sirannon river. There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.” While the latter part of this quote can also refer to the Balrog, it could just as easily be linked to what he says about the Nameless Things later on. Gandalf comments that the tentacled creature “crept, or driven out of dark waters under the mountains. They could have also been wrenched from the Void, after which they manifested themselves as the Nameless Things.Ī popular theory suggests that the Watcher in the Water may have actually been a Nameless Thing. Similarly, the Nameless Things, being a force of darkness, seem to be akin to Ungoliant. While the origins of Ungoliant, the mother of Shelob, are largely unknown, it is believed that she could have been an incarnation of “the darkness that lies about Arda”, who eventually descended into the world. Moreover, they did not serve Melkor, but are actually an independent evil force.Īnother theory worth exploring is that they originate from the Void. Eru Ilúvatar, its creator, had allowed the Ainur to weave their own ideas into the Music, but the vision of Melkor, the first Dark Lord, clashed with Eru’s themes and created disharmony: “Out of the discords of the Music – not directly out of either of the themes, Eru’s or Melkor’s, but of their dissonance with regard one to another – evil things appeared.” It is likely that the Nameless Things are among these creatures, which would also explain how they are older than Sauron: by the time he entered Eä, they already existed in a place called the Timeless Halls (where, as the name suggests, there was no concept of time). It can be assumed that they must have been created from the Music of the Ainur (the song from which Eä, the universe, was conceived). ![]() Gandalf’s lack of knowledge about these creatures also suggests that the Valar may also be unaware of them - disproving any theory that the Nameless Things might be their creation. The book of The Hobbit holds more clues: “There are strange things living in the pools and lakes in the hearts of mountains Even in the tunnels and caves the goblins have made for themselves there are other things living unbeknown to them Some of these caves, too, go back in their beginnings to ages before the goblins, who only widened them and joined them up with passages, and the original owners are still there in odd corners, slinking and nosing about.” While the Nameless Things are not specifically mentioned here, they are known to have dwelled under the Misty Mountains, in tunnels that are “not made by Durin's folk” - thus, strongly implying that they may be the subject of this passage. They are older than he.” The fact that even Gandalf - who is one of the Maia and has, hence, lived for thousands of years - cannot identify the creatures suggests that they are from ancient times. ![]() Gandalf states, “Far, far below the deepest delving of the Dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.
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