> 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".