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* They pretty much nail the Ring Wraiths, especially the tree scene and Frodo's confrontation with them, complete with ScareChord and their whispers, "Come, come, to Mordor we will take you..."
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* They pretty much nail the Ring Wraiths, especially Ringwraiths. Unlike the dark majesty of Peter Jackson's Nazgul, they come off as wretched, crippled, highly creepy zombie-like beings, shuffling and limping. You can't help but feel they're still even more dangerous than they look... which ends up being proven completely right when they shed their cloaks [[GameFace and reveal the armored monsters beneath]].
** The tree scene where the Black Rider first appears was so scary that Peter Jackson recycled it almost shot-for-shot for ''his'' adaptation. The scene takes place at night, where the Ringwraith is a freaky red-eyed shadow against a nightmarish sky, searching for the hobbits. The music alone is chilling, with a mixture of hair-raising strings and low male voices.
** When the Ringwraiths attack the Prancing Pony, they all rise up from the ground in perfect unison with their swords, revealing they are ''much'' more coordinated and competent than they've seemed up to this point. When they realize Aragorn's duped them, they let out terrifying shrieks of rage. Again, this sequence was effective enough that Jackson reused it for his adaptation.
** Weathertop. In this version, the hobbits and Aragorn are casually talking around the campfire when suddenly, and without warning, the Nazgul silently emerge from the shadows.
** Then there's Frodo's final confrontation with them, complete with ScareChord and their whispers, "Come, come, to Mordor we will take you..."" Even when Elrond's flood is washing them away, in contrast to their screaming, panicking horses, the Ringwraiths stay completely silent, their eyes locked on Frodo.
** The scene where the flying Ringwraith appears, silhouetted against the moon. Gollum's terror and the music sells the horror of the reveal that the Ringwraiths aren't just unkillable, but now they're even more dangerous than before because of their new mounts.
* Moria is extremely creepy, with demonic faces carved into the walls and, at one point, an absolutely massive horned skull with what seems to be multiple pairs of eye sockets. [[FridgeLogic Why an abandoned home of the dwarves would look so obviously evil]] is anyone's guess--something the Walking Tacos Screwed Up Dub [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]]:
--> '''Gandalf''': Did they worship ''Satan'' or something? ''[...]'' This place freaks me out.
* Frodo wakes up in Moria and notices two green eyes of some creature only a few feet away from his sleeping companions. [[NothingIsScarier It's never really clarified what it is either]]. Is Gollum staring at him? A Goblin? Some other monster? We'll never know.
** The tree scene where the Black Rider first appears was so scary that Peter Jackson recycled it almost shot-for-shot for ''his'' adaptation. The scene takes place at night, where the Ringwraith is a freaky red-eyed shadow against a nightmarish sky, searching for the hobbits. The music alone is chilling, with a mixture of hair-raising strings and low male voices.
** When the Ringwraiths attack the Prancing Pony, they all rise up from the ground in perfect unison with their swords, revealing they are ''much'' more coordinated and competent than they've seemed up to this point. When they realize Aragorn's duped them, they let out terrifying shrieks of rage. Again, this sequence was effective enough that Jackson reused it for his adaptation.
** Weathertop. In this version, the hobbits and Aragorn are casually talking around the campfire when suddenly, and without warning, the Nazgul silently emerge from the shadows.
** Then there's Frodo's final confrontation with them, complete with ScareChord and their whispers, "Come, come, to Mordor we will take you...
** The scene where the flying Ringwraith appears, silhouetted against the moon. Gollum's terror and the music sells the horror of the reveal that the Ringwraiths aren't just unkillable, but now they're even more dangerous than before because of their new mounts.
* Moria is extremely creepy, with demonic faces carved into the walls and, at one point, an absolutely massive horned skull with what seems to be multiple pairs of eye sockets. [[FridgeLogic Why an abandoned home of the dwarves would look so obviously evil]] is anyone's guess--something the Walking Tacos Screwed Up Dub [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]]:
--> '''Gandalf''': Did they worship ''Satan'' or something? ''[...]'' This place freaks me out.
* Frodo wakes up in Moria and notices two green eyes of some creature only a few feet away from his sleeping companions. [[NothingIsScarier It's never really clarified what it is either]]. Is Gollum staring at him? A Goblin? Some other monster? We'll never know.
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* Frodo wakes up in Moria and notices two green eyes of some creature only a few feet away from his sleeping companions. [[NothingIsScarier It's never really clarified what it is either]]. Is Gollum staring at him? A Goblin? Some other monster? We'll never know.
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* The Stone Watchers at Cirith Ungol. Especially the way their expressions change offscreen, with the worst being their mocking smirk when the Phial doesn't work on them on the way out. Nearly as scary is, after Sam first uses the Phial to open the invisible gate and saunters in with the Watchers glaring at him, he puts it away... and both he and the viewer are nearly deafened by the [[JumpScare thunderous, moaning roar]] both Watchers emit from six mouths to alert the Orcs to their trespasser.
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* The Stone Watchers at Cirith Ungol. Especially Introduced with a ScareChord, the way they [[DeathGlare silently follow Sam with their eyes]] builds the tension of their scene. When Sam first uses the Phial to open the invisible gate and the viewer thinks [[HopeSpot Sam is safely past them]], they unleash a [[JumpScare terrifying scream]] from their six mouths to alert the Orcs to their trespasser. The way their expressions change offscreen, offscreen is highly creepy, with the worst being their mocking smirk when the Phial doesn't work on them on the way out. Nearly as scary is, after Sam first uses out.
* The film's depiction of Sauron.
** Unlike thePhial to open TinTyrant in the invisible gate Bakshi and saunters Jackson prologues, or the more famous fiery slit eye seen throughout Jackson's trilogy, Rankin-Bass' interpretation comes off more as some [[EldritchAbomination incomprehensible entity]]. The Eye hovers in the sky over the permanently darkness-shrouded Mordor like [[LightIsNotGood some eerie mockery of the sun]]: a strange, rippling object radiating flames which is [[TheVoiceless unsettlingly silent]]. It makes Sauron come off as untouchable, all-seeing, and utterly ''alien''.
** Compared to the Ralph Bakshi and especially Peter Jackson films, this adaptation gives no information about Sauron's background or form. It just states he's the BigBad, which makes his UnseenEvil aspect all the more terrifying due to [[NothingIsScarier the lack of information about him]].
* The battering ram, Grond, already looks pretty freaky with its snarling wolf face and [[RedEyesTakeWarning glowing red eyes]], but for theWatchers glaring at him, he puts final blow on Minas Tirith's gate, it away... and both he and the viewer are nearly deafened by the [[JumpScare thunderous, moaning roar]] both Watchers emit from six mouths actually seems to alert the Orcs to their trespasser.be ''alive'' when it starts drooling steaming red saliva.
* The film's depiction of Sauron.
** Unlike the
** Compared to the Ralph Bakshi and especially Peter Jackson films, this adaptation gives no information about Sauron's background or form. It just states he's the BigBad, which makes his UnseenEvil aspect all the more terrifying due to [[NothingIsScarier the lack of information about him]].
* The battering ram, Grond, already looks pretty freaky with its snarling wolf face and [[RedEyesTakeWarning glowing red eyes]], but for the
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* "[[BeneathTheEarth Far, far below the deepest delving of the Dwarves]], the world is gnawed by [[EldritchAbomination nameless things]]. Even Sauron knows them not. [[TimeAbyss They are older than he]]. Now I have walked there, [[TakeOurWordForIt but I will bring no report to darken the light of day]]."
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* "[[BeneathTheEarth Far, far below the deepest delving of the Dwarves]], the world is gnawed by [[EldritchAbomination nameless things]]. Even Sauron knows them not. [[TimeAbyss They are older than he]].him]]. Now I have walked there, [[TakeOurWordForIt but I will bring no report to darken the light of day]]."
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** Also, when Gandalf retells his fight with the Balrog, he mentions that they end where those things live... and both Gandalf ''and'' the Balrog pulled a ScrewThisImOuttaHere.
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* The Nazgûl. Read about the creation of the book and you'll learn that the first Black Rider just... ''appeared,'' in Tolkien's third draft or so. Even he wasn't sure what it was at first... but once he decided, it became clear - [[ImplacableMan the Riders would never stop hunting the Ring.]]
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* The Nazgûl. Read about the creation of the book and you'll learn that the first Black Rider just... ''appeared,'' in Tolkien's third draft or so. Even he wasn't sure what it was at first... but once he decided, it became clear - [[ImplacableMan the Riders would never stop hunting the Ring.]]]] The very fact of this is frightening [[FridgeLogic if you think about it]], as though this was the ''real'' Nazgûl seeping into Tolkien's subconscious and then into the written word and [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou could spring out of the pages and get you at any moment]] as if they were [[Literature/TheHoundsOfTindalos the Hounds of Tindalos]] or something.
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** When Frodo wakes up and realizes where he is, he sees Merry, Pippin, and Sam nearby in what can only be described as ancient funeral garb with [[OhCrap a single long sword stretched across all three of their necks, and a disembodied arm walking in on just its finger to implicitly slit all three of their throats at once in what can only be called a human sacrifice]]. If Frodo didn't remember the rhyme/spell that Tom Bombadil had told them earlier, all three of them would definitely have been killed and he would probably have followed them soon after.
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* [[VideoGame/TheLordOfTheRingsTheThirdAge]] has this creepy mechanic where if you spend too much time wandering around in the open, you'll get attacked by ''something''. Most of the time it's standards orcs but every now and again a Nazgul will sneak up on you, sometimes with a Fellbeast. These battles are noticeably tougher than the standard random encounters.
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* [[VideoGame/TheLordOfTheRingsTheThirdAge]] [[VideoGame/TheLordOfTheRingsTheThirdAge The Third Age]] has this creepy mechanic where if you spend too much time wandering around in the open, you'll get attacked by ''something''. Most of the time it's standards orcs but every now and again a Nazgul will sneak up on you, sometimes with a Fellbeast. These battles are noticeably tougher than the standard random encounters.
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** Whatever these beings are, they're so horrible that they defy description. Gandalf warns the Three Hunters and the reader that whatever he saw was so disturbing that they would essentially ruin your life if you spent too much time thinking about them.
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** The Watcher in the Water is a complete footnote in the story and that really just makes it so much more frightening. It's noted by Gandalf to be some''thing'' that crawled up from or escaped from the deepest reaches of the Misty Mountains. Much like the Fellbeasts used by the Nazgul, it's simply some huge unaccounted-for primordial monster that apparently just has been sitting outside Moria for years, waiting and killing anything that goes too close. Obviously, [[NeverFoundTheBody it disappears after the Fellowship's only encounter with it, so we don't even get to know its final fate]].
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** The Watcher in the Water is a complete footnote in the story and that really just makes it so much more frightening. It's noted by Gandalf to be some''thing'' that crawled up from or escaped from the deepest reaches of the Misty Mountains. Much like the Fellbeasts used by the Nazgul, it's simply some huge unaccounted-for primordial monster that apparently just has been sitting outside Moria for years, waiting and killing anything that goes too close. The name is extremely nonindicative too, it's a giant creature of some sort that's only identifiable trait is that it sits in the water and watches people who go by. Obviously, [[NeverFoundTheBody it disappears after the Fellowship's only encounter with it, so we don't even get to know its final fate]].
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* Frodo wakes up in Moria and notices two green eyes of some creature only a few feet away from his sleeping companions.
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* Frodo wakes up in Moria and notices two green eyes of some creature only a few feet away from his sleeping companions.
companions. [[NothingIsScarier It's never really clarified what it is either]]. Is Gollum staring at him? A Goblin? Some other monster? We'll never know.
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* [[VideoGame/TheLordOfTheRingsTheThirdAge]] has this creepy mechanic where if you spend too much time wandering around in the open, you'll get attacked by ''something''. Most of the time it's standards orcs but every now and again a Nazgul will sneak up on you, sometimes with a Fellbeast. These battles are noticeably tougher than the standard random encounters.
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* While using the seat at the top of Amon Hen, Frodo gives in and puts on the One Ring. This soons leads to getting discovered by Sauron and without having any self-control to take it off. Its only thanks to Gandalf's voice that interjects in the mental connection that he gets the prompting to resist and end it.
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The general consensus among the readers and scholars of Tolkien is that since nothing exists outside of Eru and the Music and since Gandalf is not likely to analyse Sauron's nature right then and there it is most likely that he is merely referring to Sauron's presence in Middle Earth.
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** Of note, Sauron is a Maia, aka an ''angel'', who was created ''before the existence of the universe''. What could ''possibly'' be older than them?
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** Of note, Sauron is a Maia, aka an ''angel'', who was created ''before the existence of the universe''. What could ''possibly'' be older than them?
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* Everything about Gollum. Not just his ghastly appearance, but knowing that it was his addiction to the Ring which turned him into whatever creature he has become, and the lengths he will go for the Ring. The movies make it worse by giving him a split personality. Gandalf also mentions that during his search for Gollum he began to hear rumors of a blood drinking ghost who [[ChildEater "climbed trees to find nests and crept into windows to find cradles"]].
** The worst part? He is a Hobbit. So he is a picture what could have become (and nearly happened anyway) to Frodo or Bilbo. The fact that the Ring contains some form of intelligence suggests it may have even done this ''for fun.''
** As in regards to the possible baby-eating, remember that Gollum's first scene in The Hobbit involved him wanting to eat ''Bilbo.''
** The worst part? He is a Hobbit. So he is a picture what could have become (and nearly happened anyway) to Frodo or Bilbo. The fact that the Ring contains some form of intelligence suggests it may have even done this ''for fun.''
** As in regards to the possible baby-eating, remember that Gollum's first scene in The Hobbit involved him wanting to eat ''Bilbo.''
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* Everything about Gollum. Not just his ghastly appearance, but knowing that it was his addiction to the Ring which turned him into whatever creature he has become, and the lengths he will go to for the Ring. The movies make it worse by giving him a split personality. Gandalf also mentions that during his search for Gollum Gollum, he began to hear rumors of a blood drinking blood-drinking ghost who [[ChildEater "climbed trees to find nests and crept into windows to find cradles"]].
** The worst part? He is a Hobbit. So he is a picture of what could have become (and nearly happened anyway) to Frodo or Bilbo. The fact that the Ring contains some form of intelligence suggests it may have even done this ''forfun.''
fun''.
** As in regards to the possible baby-eating, remember that Gollum's first scene in The Hobbit involved him wanting to eat''Bilbo.''''Bilbo''.
** The worst part? He is a Hobbit. So he is a picture of what could have become (and nearly happened anyway) to Frodo or Bilbo. The fact that the Ring contains some form of intelligence suggests it may have even done this ''for
** As in regards to the possible baby-eating, remember that Gollum's first scene in The Hobbit involved him wanting to eat
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* The concept of The Ring itself. As the SoulJar for the one of the most utterly evil creatures to ever inhabit Middle-Earth, it's [[BeautyIsBad beautiful]], you want it even if you don't know why, it stretches out your existence but in a bad way, it whispers to you and puts ideas into your head, and if you spend too long with it, it will pervert you into a [[TheCorruption horrible shadow of your former self]], leaving you a hopelessly addicted, twisted, pitiful wretch. How long it takes to do this to you depends on your mental and moral strength, but it will break you eventually no matter how strong you are. If you're not particularly strong-willed it can claim you in mere seconds! And if it ever achieves its goal, [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt then...]] Tolkien insisted that ''The Lord of the Rings'' held "applicability," not "allegory," but people have compared the Ring to everything from capitalism to communism to nuclear power.
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* The concept of The Ring itself. As the SoulJar for the one of the most utterly evil creatures to ever inhabit Middle-Earth, Middle-earth, it's [[BeautyIsBad beautiful]], you want it even if you don't know why, it stretches out your existence but in a bad way, it whispers to you and puts ideas into your head, and if you spend too long with it, it will pervert you into a [[TheCorruption horrible shadow of your former self]], leaving you a hopelessly addicted, twisted, pitiful wretch. How long it takes to do this to you depends on your mental and moral strength, but it will break you eventually no matter how strong you are. If you're not particularly strong-willed it can claim you in mere seconds! And if it ever achieves its goal, [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt then...]] Tolkien insisted that ''The Lord of the Rings'' held "applicability," not "allegory," but people have compared the Ring to everything from capitalism to communism to nuclear power.
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* Moria as a whole is this. Dark, claustrophobic, a gigantic tentacled abomination that nearly kills Frodo, Orcs at every corner, insane architecture and a friggin' ''[[EldritchAbomination Balrog]]'' is underground. Even with [[http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110313211305/lotr/images/5/52/Peter_Jackson%27s_Moria.jpg beautifully carved]], [[http://drh1.img.digitalriver.com/DRHM/Storefront/Company/turbine/images/product/misc/Moria_01.jpg giant statues]] of dwarves, it doesn't make it any less frightening.
** The Watcher In The Water is a complete footnote in the story and that really just makes it so much more frightening. It's noted by Gandalf to be some''thing'' that crawled up from or escaped from the deepest reaches of the Misty Mountains. Much like the Fellbeasts used by the Nazgul, it's simply some huge unaccounted for primordial monster that apparently just has been sitting outside Moria for years, waiting and killing anything that go too close. Obviously, [[NeverFoundTheBody it disappears after the Fellowship's only encounter with it, so we don't even get to know its final fate.]]
** The Watcher In The Water is a complete footnote in the story and that really just makes it so much more frightening. It's noted by Gandalf to be some''thing'' that crawled up from or escaped from the deepest reaches of the Misty Mountains. Much like the Fellbeasts used by the Nazgul, it's simply some huge unaccounted for primordial monster that apparently just has been sitting outside Moria for years, waiting and killing anything that go too close. Obviously, [[NeverFoundTheBody it disappears after the Fellowship's only encounter with it, so we don't even get to know its final fate.]]
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* Moria as a whole is this. Dark, claustrophobic, a gigantic tentacled abomination that nearly kills Frodo, Orcs at every corner, insane architecture architecture, and a friggin' ''[[EldritchAbomination Balrog]]'' is underground. Even with [[http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110313211305/lotr/images/5/52/Peter_Jackson%27s_Moria.jpg beautifully carved]], [[http://drh1.img.digitalriver.com/DRHM/Storefront/Company/turbine/images/product/misc/Moria_01.jpg giant statues]] of dwarves, it doesn't make it any less frightening.
** The WatcherIn The in the Water is a complete footnote in the story and that really just makes it so much more frightening. It's noted by Gandalf to be some''thing'' that crawled up from or escaped from the deepest reaches of the Misty Mountains. Much like the Fellbeasts used by the Nazgul, it's simply some huge unaccounted for unaccounted-for primordial monster that apparently just has been sitting outside Moria for years, waiting and killing anything that go goes too close. Obviously, [[NeverFoundTheBody it disappears after the Fellowship's only encounter with it, so we don't even get to know its final fate.]]fate]].
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** From Silmarilion: ''For the Orcs had life and multiplied after the manner of the Children of Iluvatar''. Combine these two points...
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* The moments depicting Frodo's slowly being overpowered by the ring, from his increasing weariness and DissonantSerenity in the Dead Marshes to having to ask Sam to keep his hands from putting the ring on. Perhaps creepiest of all is in the first book when he finds himself hesitating to ride away to Rivendell on Glofindel's horse, even with the riders within sight... and realises that they are silently commanding him to wait for them.
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* The moments depicting Frodo's slowly being overpowered by the ring, from his increasing weariness and DissonantSerenity in the Dead Marshes to having to ask Sam to keep his hands from putting the ring on. Perhaps creepiest of all is in the first book when he finds himself hesitating to ride away to Rivendell on Glofindel's horse, even with the riders within sight... and realises realizes that they are silently commanding him to wait for them.
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---> "Grr! Those Nazgûl give me the creeps. And they skin the body off you as soon as look at you, and leave you all cold in the dark on the other side."
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** When Gandalf tells Frodo what he learned about Gollum's past he reveals that, back when he was Sméagol, he took one look at the beautiful golden ring that his cousin Déagol had found in the river and promptly throttled Déagol so that he could have it.
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* A lot of moments are all the scarier ''because there's nothing for you to see.'' All you have to go on is the sound - which is extremely effective:
** The sounds of Gollum being tortured are really hard to listen to.
** When Frodo's caught by the Watcher in the Water, Ian Holm does a fantastic job of sounding absolutely ''terrified'' and shrieking desperately for help.
** When the Balrog shows up (completely with unnerving sound-effects) Legolas starts screaming in fear like he does in the book, sounding legitimately terror-stricken.
* The entirety of the Journey through Moria is one, as all that can be heard is the party's footsteps and Gollum's following them. Frodo's reactions, each time he becomes aware of Gollum's presence, are understandably scared.
* The Ring is mostly just represented by a glass harmonica note, before or during someone being influenced by it. This is an eerie sound at the best of times, but when you associate it with the One Ring...
* The call of the Nazgul sounds like the cry of a demonic bird and it ranges from eerie to [[HellIsThatNoise downright startling.]]
** The sounds of Gollum being tortured are really hard to listen to.
** When Frodo's caught by the Watcher in the Water, Ian Holm does a fantastic job of sounding absolutely ''terrified'' and shrieking desperately for help.
** When the Balrog shows up (completely with unnerving sound-effects) Legolas starts screaming in fear like he does in the book, sounding legitimately terror-stricken.
* The entirety of the Journey through Moria is one, as all that can be heard is the party's footsteps and Gollum's following them. Frodo's reactions, each time he becomes aware of Gollum's presence, are understandably scared.
* The Ring is mostly just represented by a glass harmonica note, before or during someone being influenced by it. This is an eerie sound at the best of times, but when you associate it with the One Ring...
* The call of the Nazgul sounds like the cry of a demonic bird and it ranges from eerie to [[HellIsThatNoise downright startling.]]
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* A lot of moments are all the scarier ''because there's nothing for you to see.'' All you have to go on is the sound - which is extremely effective:
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**The When Gollum is held captive in Mordor and being tortured, there's the sounds of Gollum the rack continuously being tortured are really hard to listen to.
** When Frodo's caught byturned under the Watcher in the Water, Ian Holm does a fantastic job sound of sounding absolutely ''terrified'' and shrieking desperately for help.
his screams.
**When the Balrog shows up (completely with unnerving sound-effects) Legolas starts screaming in fear like he does in the book, sounding legitimately terror-stricken.
* The entirety of the Journey through Moria is one, as all that can be heard is the party's footsteps and Gollum's following them. Frodo's reactions, each time he becomes aware of Gollum's presence, are understandably scared.
*The Ring is mostly just represented by a glass harmonica note, before or during someone being influenced by it. This is an eerie sound at the best of times, but when you associate it with the One Ring...
* ** This version has Gandalf's narration of Deagol and Smeagol finding the Ring cut to a flashback of them doing so, with Smeagol abruptly drowning his friend and Deagol's panicked struggle to breathe.
** The call of the Nazgul sounds like the cry of a demonic bird and it ranges from eerie to [[HellIsThatNoise downright startling.]]]]
** Frodo's caught by the Watcher in the Water and Ian Holm does a fantastic job of sounding absolutely ''terrified'' and shrieking desperately for help.
** The entirety of the Journey through Moria is one, as all that can be heard is the party's footsteps and Gollum's following them. Frodo's reactions, each time he becomes aware of Gollum's presence, are understandably scared.
** As the Balrog shows up (completely with unnerving sound-effects) Legolas starts screaming in fear like he does in the book, sounding legitimately terror-stricken.
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** When Frodo's caught by
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** The call of the Nazgul sounds like the cry of a demonic bird and it ranges from eerie to [[HellIsThatNoise downright startling.
** Frodo's caught by the Watcher in the Water and Ian Holm does a fantastic job of sounding absolutely ''terrified'' and shrieking desperately for help.
** The entirety of the Journey through Moria is one, as all that can be heard is the party's footsteps and Gollum's following them. Frodo's reactions, each time he becomes aware of Gollum's presence, are understandably scared.
** As the Balrog shows up (completely with unnerving sound-effects) Legolas starts screaming in fear like he does in the book, sounding legitimately terror-stricken.
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* "[[BeneathTheEarth Far, far below the deepest delving of the Dwarves]], the world is gnawed by [[UltimateEvil nameless]] [[EldritchAbomination things]]. Even Sauron knows them not. [[TimeAbyss They are older than he]]. Now I have walked there, [[TakeOurWordForIt but I will bring no report to darken the light of day]]."
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* "[[BeneathTheEarth Far, far below the deepest delving of the Dwarves]], the world is gnawed by [[UltimateEvil nameless]] [[EldritchAbomination nameless things]]. Even Sauron knows them not. [[TimeAbyss They are older than he]]. Now I have walked there, [[TakeOurWordForIt but I will bring no report to darken the light of day]]."
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* The Stone Watchers at Cirith Ungol. Especially the way their expressions change offscreen. The worst is their mocking smirk when the Phial doesn't work on them on the way out. Nealy as scary is, after Sam first uses the Phial to open the invisible gate and saunters in with the Watchers glaring at him, he puts it away... and both he and the viewer are nearly deafened by the thunderous moaning roar both Watchers emit from six mouths to alert the Orcs to a tresspasser.
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* The Stone Watchers at Cirith Ungol. Especially the way their expressions change offscreen. The offscreen, with the worst is being their mocking smirk when the Phial doesn't work on them on the way out. Nealy Nearly as scary is, after Sam first uses the Phial to open the invisible gate and saunters in with the Watchers glaring at him, he puts it away... and both he and the viewer are nearly deafened by the thunderous [[JumpScare thunderous, moaning roar roar]] both Watchers emit from six mouths to alert the Orcs to a tresspasser.their trespasser.
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Changed line(s) 7 (click to see context) from:
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Come Back, to Mordor we will take you!"'']]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Come Back, back, to Mordor we will take you!"'']]
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->'''Aragorn:''' Are you frightened?
->'''Frodo:''' Yes.
->'''Aragorn:''' Not nearly frightened enough.
->'''Frodo:''' Yes.
->'''Aragorn:''' Not nearly frightened enough.
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Changed line(s) 82,83 (click to see context) from:
* When Sam tells Frodo Gollum is still alive and trying to murder them.
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* When Sam tells Frodo that Gollum is still alive and trying to murder them.
