History NightmareFuel / TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing

* "[[SuddenlyShouting BILBO BAGGINS!!]]" The sweet, jovial old wizard of a man we saw in Gandalf suddenly darkening the room around himself and shouting with a primal fury makes the Ring-corrupted Bilbo so utterly terrified you'd think he [[BringMyBrownPants soiled himself on the spot.]] The display of power also proves quite aptly that if Gandalf ''did'' want to take the Ring from Bilbo, there wouldn't be a thing Bilbo could do to stop him.

* Frodo and his friends are traveling on a road when all of a sudden Frodo gets a bad feeling and tells them to hide. No sooner have they done so when a cowled figure rides into view on a black horse. The figure gets off and then starts sniffing like a bloodhound on a trail. Then, all sorts of creepy bugs come crawling out all around them, seemingly reacting to the thing's very presence and trying desperately to get away from it.

* The attack by the Ringwraiths on the Prancing Pony. Watching them come in the front door with the night mist (and Barliman cowering in fear) is bad enough, but then we see a pan around the hobbit's room, and they're just ''there'', with swords drawn and ready, like they came in through the walls or something. It's very unnerving.

* Bilbo Baggins's completely [[NightmareFace out-of-left-field freakout]] when he realises Frodo has the Ring. It really does come out of gracious nowhere. He does this in response to Frodo refusing to surrender the Ring, which he (Bilbo) was starting to show signs of obsession toward all over again. This is immediately after he willingly (even joyfully) gives Frodo a Mithril Shirt stated in the books to be worth ''more than the entire Shire''. The Ring has such a strong hold on him that it's literally more tempting than all the wealth of the land he came from and then some. And to finish it all, there's the [[HellIsThatNoise horrifyingly scary snarl]] delivered by Bilbo. And that's not all. Take a look at his eyes and teeth when he makes that horrific noise. He looks just like Gollum!

** Right then, of course, Pippin knocks a skeleton down a well, making all kinds of racket. After a tense moment of silence, Gandalf scolds him, then turns to leave. And then...

** It's even worse ''how'' they get surrounded - they're in a massive open hall, surrounded by a seemingly endless swarm of the orcs, and they're climbing out of ''holes in the ceiling'' and down the columns like ants or spiders.

* Bilbo Baggins's completely [[NightmareFace out-of-left-field freakout]] when he realises Frodo has the Ring. It really does come out of gracious nowhere. He does this in response to Frodo refusing to surrender the Ring, which he (Bilbo) was starting to show signs of obsession toward all over again. This is immediately after he willingly (even joyfully) gives Frodo a Mithril Shirt stated in the books to be worth ''more than the entire Shire''. The Ring has such a strong hold on him that it's literally more tempting than all the wealth of the land he came from and then some. And to finish it all, there's the [[HellIsThatNoise horrifyingly scary snarl]] delivered by Bilbo.

* When Gandalf completes his research and returns to Bag End, we are treated to a shot of him [[Jump Scare jump scaring]] Frodo, demanding, "is it secret? Is it safe?" There is so much urgency in his words and his expression, you know immediately that there is a great deal at stake.

* When Gandalf completes his research and returns to Bag End, we are treated to a shot of him asking Frodo, "is it secret? Is it safe?" There is so much urgency in his words and his expression, you know immediately that there is a great deal at stake.

** Even worse. Readers of The Silmarillion know perfectly well that the Balrogs are corrupted maiar just like ''Sauron himself'', and are ''just as powerful as him''.

-->'''Frodo''': We hide it, and we never speak of it again! No one knows it's here, do they?...Do they Gandalf?

*** There is ''no'' fighting the Balrog--this isn't a simple opponent that you can outmaneuver or hit with enough artillery or throw enough disposable troops at to eventually kill it, it's practically an unstoppable force of nature. Gandalf outright says that it's completely beyond any of their abilities and their only options are RunOrDie, and the fact that he himself eventually defeated it is the ''exception'', not the rule. Putting this into a bit of perspective, Aragorn stood up to and drove off the Nazgûl earlier in the film, and in the third movie Legolas kills a giant monster elephant ''by himself'' and Sam almost singlehandedly defeats [[GiantSpider Shelob]]. Gandalf only stands against it later to give the rest of the Fellowship a chance to escape--[[TakeAThirdOption his first solution being to break the bridge so that it can't follow them]]--and we see in the next film that he legitimately ''died'' in the effort to kill it and only comes back as Gandalf the White from a genuine DeusExMachina. Putting ''that'' into further perspective, ''no one in the entire history of Middle-earth has successfully killed a balrog without dying in the process!'' There's a better kill-death ratio against ''dragons!''

** In this scene, we see what Gandalf was afraid of at the start of the film fulfilled. Boromir does not seek the Ring for power or glory. He wants to save his people, who are at risk of being wiped out ''right now''. The Ring could save them, end the threat of Mordor for good. That vision Frodo saw earlier of the Shire inflames and its people enslaved? Boromir fears that very same fate for his own homeland, and the Ring corrupted that noble sentiment into this crazed hostility.

--->'''Boromir:''' You FOOL! (The Ring) is not yours save by unhappy chance! It could have been mine, it should be mine! Give it to me!