Vad var "Watcher i vattnet"?

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I Ringets sammanslutning möter våra hjältar en varelse som heter "The Watcher in the Water", som bevakade Durins Dörrar, den gamla och övergivna entrén till Morias miner. Vad var det? Det avslöjas inte i trilogin. Är det förklarat i någon av Tolkiens anteckningar?

    
uppsättning Major Stackings 29.11.2012 17:25

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Det verkar vara någon form av vagt definierad underjordisk sjö Kraken eller liknande dungeon lurker.

Utanför Ringens gemenskap nämns endast i Ringsherrens historia som innehåller några av Tolkiens anteckningar.



Från Watcher in the Water på Wikipedia:

Since Tolkien never explicitly stated what the creature is, others have felt free to speculate on its identity and origins. In A Tolkien Bestiary, David Day calls the Watcher a kraken; however, he also implies that there are some differences between the kraken of Scandinavian folklore and the Watcher in the Water. However, Tolkien never called the Watcher a kraken nor described the presence of krakens in Middle-earth. In The Complete Tolkien Companion, J. E. A. Tyler postulates the Watcher was a cold-drake: "...these dragons rely on their strength and speed alone (the creature that attacked the Ring-bearer near the Lake of Moria may have been one of these)." Another writer compared it to squids.

    
svaret ges 29.11.2012 23:27
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Det accepterade svaret är utmärkt, men jag vill tillägga att vi bara inte vet.

Inom verken är det inte ens 100% klart att Watcharen är en varelse eller ett antal oberoende ormar som varelser som arbetar tillsammans.

‘I felt that something horrible was near from the moment that my foot first touched the water,’ said Frodo. ‘What was the thing, or were there many of them?’ ‘I do not know,’ answered Gandalf; ‘but the arms were all guided by one purpose. Something has crept, or has been driven out of dark waters under the mountains. There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.’ He did not speak aloud his thought that whatever it was that dwelt in the lake, it had seized on Frodo first among all the Company.

Även om det är extremt troligt att det var en varelse, och Kraken-teorin passar, kan vi inte säga säkert utan en viss spekulation.

    
svaret ges 11.10.2015 16:03