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Location
Particularly associated with Midgewater Marshes, eastward of Bree
Species
Evidently a relation of the cricket, and therefore probably a member of the family Gryllidae
Meaning
Onomatopoeic; these insects were given their name by Sam Gamgee because of repetitive neek-breek sound they made

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Neekerbreekers

Creatures of Midgewater Marshes

"There were thousands of them, and they squeaked all round, neek-breek, breek-neek..."
The Fellowship of the Ring I 11,
A Knife in the Dark

Deep in the heart of the Midgewater Marshes lived a colony of creatures that seemed to be of cricket-kind. As Strider led the Hobbits through the Marshes, they never encountered one of these creatures, but the night air was full of the incessant neek, breek sounds they made. From these sounds, Sam coined a name for them: the Neekerbreekers.


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