So upon reading this most recent update, I have discovered yet another connection AH has made to LOTR, notably between the tricksters and Roxy.

Roxy is obviously the bearer of the One Ring, but what does that leave the tricksters? The Nazgûl, Ringwraiths.

These are a few things the books say about them:



“Those who used the Nine Rings became mighty in their day, kings, sorcerers, and warriors of old. They obtained glory and great wealth, yet it turned to their undoing. They had, as it seemed, unending life, yet life became unendurable to them. They could walk, if they would, unseen by all eyes in this world beneath the sun, and they could see things in worlds invisible to mortal men; but too often they beheld only the phantoms and delusions of Sauron. And one by one, sooner or later, according to their native strength and to the good or evil of their wills in the beginning, they fell under the thraldom of the ring that they bore and of the domination of the One which was Sauron’s.(…) [They were] the Enemy’s most terrible servants; darkness went with them, and they cried with the voices of death.”

“[They] came again . . . like vultures that expect their fill of doomed men’s flesh. Out of sight and shot they flew, and yet were ever present, and their deadly voices rent the air. More unbearable they became, not less, at each new cry. At length even the stout-hearted would fling themselves to the ground as the hidden menace passed over them, or they would stand, letting their weapons fall from nerveless hands while into their minds a blackness came, and they thought no more of war, but only of hiding and of crawling, and of death.”

Marco, Polo, anyone? But then what does this mean, you may rhetorically ask/think? If this connection is anything to speculate at, it means that on top of the massive power they now possess, the tricksters are working to seek out those who appose their master(s). And who would that be…?

The Cherubs. Caliborn and Calliope. And if my last theory holds any weight, this connection would back up that their combine JuJu serves to either one or both of their ends, as it can’t be used against them, in a similar way how Frodo could not use the Ring against Sauron.

Hopefully this mystery pumpkin Roxy was hit with isn’t similar to The Morgol blade Frodo was stabbed with, the purpose of which is to turn him into a Wraith…