User blog comment:S'moregoth/An Unexpected Blogpost/@comment-25330335-20171101234424

You can suffocate the Wights as well, so long as you deliver the killing blow, you still get the alignment. There are enough wandering out there to get killed by also.

My friend and I made Galadhrim cloaks when we went to the Barrow-Downs, and it is true that it makes it much easier to travel unnoticed. My life was surely saved many times by that...