tom bombadil helped frodo and his friends escape from the barrow-wight.
tom bombadil helped frodo and his friends escape from the barrow-wight.
who helps frodo and his friends escape from the barrow-wight?
tom bombadil
after leaving tom bombadil, frodo baggins and company were trapped in the barrow-downs, and nearly brutally killed by a barrow-wight. it was mentioned in "the lord of the rings" appendix a that frodo was trapped in the cairn of the last prince of cardolan; merry's exclamation on waking from his trance suggests this. frodo cut off the wight's hand; then, when the wight extinguished the dim light in the cavern where the company was imprisoned, frodo called for tom bombadil, who expelled the wight from the barrow.









































section::::other versions within tolkien's legendarium.
barrow-wight
when the hobbits were waylaid by the barrow-wight, they found long daggers made by dúnedain in the wight's treasure. these served as short-swords for the hobbits, but frodo's was broken when he resisted the witch-king at the ford of bruinen. later, bilbo gave frodo sting, a magic elvish dagger, and a coat of "mithril" chain mail. the mail saved him from injury or death on four occasions, deflecting a spear-point and an orc-arrow in the mines of moria, another orc-arrow along the anduin, and finally saruman's knife at bag end. frodo wounded the barrow-wight and a cave troll, but never killed anyone.
frodo baggins