To pay devil's advocate, there are burial mounds far into central Asia, the so-called kurgans. Tolkien liked to scatter prehistoric remains across Middle-earth, often to the mystification of later populations, like with the Pukel-men of Dunharrow. However I have absolutely zero confidence in the world-building skills of the Amazon writers -- it would be like them to have barrow-wights with no barrows.

@@pwmiles56 Yeah, the Kurgans have been renamed the Yamnaya since WWII, because the bad guys used them in their Aryan origins theory and modern academia is too scared to keep using the term, but both refer to the Burial chamber / earth mound. In any case, they have nothing in common with Semitic cultures originating from South of the Caucasus mountains.

@@pwmiles56 Tbh, middle eastern region is also where the Ghoul mythology came from. The pronounciation of Ghul is also similiar to how you pronounce Gul in Morgul word for dark sorcery.

I know you are just sarcastic, but at this point if they could not really reap profits from woke market, then there are few other markets where they could trying to appeal too. And they will use any strategy to do that.

"The power of maaaaaaanyyyyyyy"...?

I have failed you 🤣

Good point!

Without a doubt another location Prime pulled out of their arses.

@@europeanlore That's entirely possible. But the location could be appropriate for the appearance of the Wights. Or not.

There is a very detailed description of what I think a barrow-wight is. IN THE VIDEO

@@europeanlore yeah and I'm going to watch the video but I put the comment there, if you'd prefer not to have comments and people just listen to you you can say so if you want.

@@UncensoredScion What are you here for if you are not going to watch the video ?.

@@hughwark5291 So yeah, DONT comment unless its sucking ass of the content creator. Y'know for all the stuff EL says about grifters he sure loves to push the "only blow smoke up my ass" approach. I wonder who is worse in that, a disingenuous person saying "other people are bad but I'll do what they do it's okay when I do it" or the guys who just grift off rage clicks?

A barrow wight is practically the spirit of the dead buried in the barrow and it would look like that, with all his panoply of war on since oftentimes people buried in mounds were freemen who bore weapons. Since we are in Middle Earth and not Middle East, Seb is right here - there's a possibility that those are spirits of some deceased Easterlings but still those are women robes and clothes... a weird choice made only by thinking about the "cool factor" (like Peter Steiner's Leitmotiv: "aber Vorsicht: it's cool, man"). To have a visual representation of what a barrow wight would look like, search on KZfaq for the scene from the movie "The Northmen" when the protagonist goes inside a burial mound to recover a sword.

Timelines are a mystery to them.

And you spent your precious time writing a five lines-long (as shown on my iPhone) comment under a video about a show that nobody wants to watch. Congratulations.

@@europeanlore Yes I did. Will I follow? I guess not because I have seen it all and move on - my key point - moving on.

Cheers!

Indeed

@@europeanlore Is it really that hard to find people that love and respect the source material to work on these major IP shows/Films?