Posted: March 09, 1999 at 19:21:35: by Michael Martinez
: : The quote is "Begone, foul dwimmerlaik, lord of carrion!
: : Leave the dead in peace." As dwimmerlaik is not capitalized,
: : it obviously is not a name and I haven't found other
: : references ina cursory data-base search. : Does anybody else know? It just means "work of necromancy, spectre" according to Robert Foster's THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO MIDDLE-EARTH (which you can, btw, purchase from Amazon.Com through the search engine interface at the bottom of the message board -- plug, plug). "dwimor" (a related word, or perhaps just a variant spelling) also appears in "dwimordene", the translated Rohirric name for Lothlorien, which Foster translates as "haunted valley" and in the name Dwimorberg ("haunted mountain") -- the mountain behind Dunharrow where stood the door to the Paths of the Dead.
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