Wandering Adventure Party

@juergen_hubert

Tolkien's LOTR features such a lake, at the Western Gates of Moria.

Watcher in the Water

"Out from the water a long sinuous tentacle had crawled; it was pale-green and luminous and wet. Its fingered end had hold of Frodo’s foot, and was dragging him into the water. Sam on his knees was now slashing at it with a knife.The arm let go of Frodo, and Sam pulled him away, crying out for...

The One Wiki to Rule Them All (lotr.fandom.com)

@juergen_hubert

My father collected stories in Niger and Nigeria in the 1960s. Several of them turned up in the Joel Chandler Harris stories, collected among the American slave cultures.

@juergen_hubert

These are great ! I used to read the original, unexpurgated Grimm's stories to my children. They always liked the most horrible stories the most.