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jesusisherelookbusy t1_itcyn8q wrote

“There are dead things... dead faces in the water!”

“All dead. All rotten. Elves, and Men, and Orcses. A great battle long ago... The Dead Marshes. Yes, yes, that is the name! This way. Don't follow the lights.”

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blokops t1_itd1unt wrote

Then frodo proceeds to dive heads first

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DieSchadenfreude t1_itfjq31 wrote

Easily one of the more unnerving parts of lotr. I still hold a special place in my heart for the mines or moria though. When I first read about that I was prone to staying up late reading after everyone else had gone to bed. Alone in a silent, dark world. Reading about the drums in the deep....in a still world, alone.

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matty80 t1_itfn0nu wrote

> the mines or moria

My favourite shot in the whole trilogy is when Gandalf illuminates the enormity of Moria. From the books I was expecting 'big', but I wasn't expecting that.

That whole sequence is amazing, from the first realisation that Gollum is following them, right to the Bridge. Serious respect for the unfairly-maligned Orlando Bloom for portraying the terror an elf would feel on hearing the word "Balrog".

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jesusisherelookbusy t1_itfl8e0 wrote

Those underwater ghosts have a really Raiders of the lost Ark, spooky quality about them.

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