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Mr. Arkenstone (isaac)
Tol Eressea
Jun 27 2014, 1:52pm
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The scariest scene from the book
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The other day I was having a debate and we talked about the black riders wich reminded me the scene I find most scary of all books Mine: When Frodo, Sam and Pippin are leaving Bag End at night and Ffrodo ears the Gaffer talking to some stranger (wich is SPOILERS a black rider) The sense of what could had happened if Frodo would have gone that way, Oh My!
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CuriousG
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Jun 27 2014, 2:44pm
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My scariest would be Eowyn vs the Witch-King
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On first read, I was certain she was a goner, and Merry too. My fear of the Nazgul had only grown since they first chased Frodo through the Shire, and there on the Pelennor, with Theoden down and his army scattered, and severed heads being catapulted into Minas Tirith while the city was on fire--all that and more built up to a very scary confrontation with the Chief Nazgul that I was sure was going to go bad in a very evil way.
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Felagund
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Jun 27 2014, 4:38pm
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The creeping dread as the Fellowship discovers how Balin's colony came to a grisly end, coupled with the dawning realisation that they may suffer a similar fate. Gets me every time.
Welcome to the Mordorfone network, where we put the 'hai' back into Uruk
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Rembrethil
Tol Eressea
Jun 27 2014, 7:21pm
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Sam and his confrontation with the Watchers in Minas Morgul
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That inexplicable force resisting him and the piercing shriek, I thought he was going to be caught for sure!
Call me Rem, and remember, not all who ramble are lost...Uh...where was I?
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BlackFox
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Jun 27 2014, 8:35pm
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It was already nearly as hot as it had been the day before; but clouds were beginning to come up from the West. It looked likely to turn to rain. The hobbits scrambled down a steep green bank and plunged into the thick trees below. Their course had been chosen to leave Woodhall to their left, and to cut slanting through the woods that clustered along the eastern side of the hills, until they reached the flats beyond. Then they could make straight for the Ferry over country that was open, except for a few ditches and fences. Frodo reckoned they had eighteen miles to go in a straight line. He soon found that the thicket was closer and more tangled than it had appeared. There were no paths in the undergrowth, and they did not get on very fast. When they had struggled to the bottom of the bank, they found a stream running down from the hills behind in a deeply dug bed with steep slippery sides overhung with brambles. Most inconveniently it cut across the line they had chosen. They could not jump over it, nor indeed get across it at all without getting wet, scratched, and muddy. They halted, wondering what to do. ‘First check!’ said Pippin, smiling grimly. Sam Gamgee looked back. Through an opening in the trees he caught a glimpse of the top of the green bank from which they had climbed down. ‘Look!’ he said, clutching Frodo by the arm. They all looked, and on the edge high above them they saw against the sky a horse standing. Beside it stooped a black figure. [FOTR, Ch. 4: A Short Cut to Mushrooms] Stuff of nightmares.
“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.” - Henry David Thoreau
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cats16
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Jun 27 2014, 11:12pm
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Either the descriptions of the sniffing Black Riders and all of the things Silverlode excellently described a few days ago, or in Moria when the hobbits (don't have the books ready at the moment, it might just be Frodo) hear--or, again, think they hear--the sound of bare feet behind them in Moria. The feeling of being followed gives me the creeps, especially in the dark. Books I and II of the trilogy capture that horrifying dread quite well.
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Maciliel
Valinor
Jun 28 2014, 1:29am
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hobbits being tracked by black riders the horribly spooky barrow downs the watcher in the water gollum dogging them in moria the watchers at the stair shelob cheers --
aka. fili orc-enshield +++++++++++++++++++ the scene, as i understand it, is exceptionally well-written. fili (in sort of a callback to the scene with the eagles), calls out "thorRIIIIIIN!!!" just as he sees the pale orc veer in for the kill. he picks up the severed arm of an orc which is lying on the ground, swings it up in desperation, effectively blocking the pale orc's blow. and thus, forever after, fili is known as "fili orc-enshield." this earns him deep respect from his hard-to-please uncle. as well as a hug. kili wipes his boots on the pale orc's glory box. -- maciliel telpemairo
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Silverlode
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Jun 28 2014, 2:13am
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Not sure if I can give just one...how about a top three?
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When it reached the tree and was level with Frodo the horse stopped. The riding figure sat quite still with its head bowed, as if listening. From inside the hood came a noise as of someone sniffing to catch an elusive scent; the head turned from side to side of the road. A sudden unreasoning fear of discovery laid hold of Frodo, and he thought of his Ring. He hardly dared to breathe, and yet the desire to get it out of his pocket became so strong that he began slowly to move his hand.... "Frodo! Hoy!" came the thin voices out of the mist: and then a cry that sounded like help, help! often repeated, ending with a last help! that trailed off into a long wail suddenly cut short. ...Only the change in the level of the ground at his feet told him when he at last came to the top of a ridge or hill. He was weary, sweating and yet chilled. It was wholly dark. "Where are you?" he cried out miserably. ...Out of the east the biting wind was blowing. To his right there loomed against the westward stars a dark black shape. A great barrow stood there. 'Where are you?" he cried again, both angry and afraid. "Here!" said a voice, deep and cold, that seemed to come out of the ground. "I am waiting for you!" "No!" said Frodo; but he did not run away. His knees gave, and he fell on the ground. ...Trembling, he looked up, in time to see a tall dark figure like a shadow against the stars. It leaned over him. ...Then a grip stronger and colder than iron seized him. The icy touch froze his bones, and he remembered no more. ...Suddenly a song began: a cold murmur, rising and falling. The voice seemed far away and immeasurably dreary...The night was railing against the morning of which it was bereaved, and the cold was cursing the warmth for which it hungered. ...Round the corner a long arm was groping, walking on its fingers toward Sam, who was lying nearest, and towards the hilt of the sword that lay upon him. We cannot get out. They have taken the Bridge and the second hall. Frár and Lóni and Náli fell there. .....went 5 days ago. The pool is up to the wall at Westgate. The Watcher in the Water took Óin. We cannot get out. The end comes. ....drums, drums in the deep....they are coming Now I'm going to go hide under the covers for a bit, if you don't mind.
Silverlode "Dark is the water of Kheled-zâram, and cold are the springs of Kibil-nâla, and fair were the many-pillared halls of Khazad-dûm in Elder Days before the fall of mighty kings beneath the stone."
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Rembrethil
Tol Eressea
Jun 28 2014, 2:50am
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Oooh!!! Good one!! I like that!!
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I forgot about the Drums in the Deep! I think I need to re-read LotR, this is a sign I've gone too long!
Call me Rem, and remember, not all who ramble are lost...Uh...where was I?
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cats16
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Jun 28 2014, 5:44am
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Looks like you've done it to me again. You seem to pick out great spooky passages, though. Another one that I just remembered is Gollum-related, when he attempts to climb up the flet as the group progresses through Lorien. The description of those moments through Frodo's(?) eyes, along with the Elves' eyewitness accounts, give me goosebumps. (The idea of Gollum being identified as some type of large, dark squirrel has always interested me, too.) *hides under covers, too*
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Arannir
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Jun 28 2014, 11:53am
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... when they climb down a hill still in teh Shire, look back up and see a figure against the sky on top of the hill... that is so scary.
"I am afraid it is only too likely to be true what you say about the critics and the public. I am dreading the publication for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at." J.R.R. Tolkien We all have our hearts and minds one way or another invested in these books and movies. So we all mind and should show the necessary respect.
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Maciliel
Valinor
Jun 28 2014, 1:42pm
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when the elves started singing, "tra-la-lally..." .... that was +petrifying+. cheers -- .
aka. fili orc-enshield +++++++++++++++++++ the scene, as i understand it, is exceptionally well-written. fili (in sort of a callback to the scene with the eagles), calls out "thorRIIIIIIN!!!" just as he sees the pale orc veer in for the kill. he picks up the severed arm of an orc which is lying on the ground, swings it up in desperation, effectively blocking the pale orc's blow. and thus, forever after, fili is known as "fili orc-enshield." this earns him deep respect from his hard-to-please uncle. as well as a hug. kili wipes his boots on the pale orc's glory box. -- maciliel telpemairo
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Mr. Arkenstone (isaac)
Tol Eressea
Jun 28 2014, 2:27pm
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come on
The flagon with the dragon has the brew that is true!
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DaughterofLaketown
Gondor
Jun 28 2014, 7:55pm
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the horribly spooky barrow downs the watcher in the water
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Jun 28 2014, 11:34pm
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but to me the best suspense was the whole start of the journey for the hobbits as they were on their own and hunted by the black riders. Also the drums in the deep (in Moria).
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Maciliel
Valinor
Jun 29 2014, 3:59am
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and when lobelia showed up early at bag end to take possession... and went through the list of inventory multiple times.... that was +really scarey!+ cheers -- .
aka. fili orc-enshield +++++++++++++++++++ the scene, as i understand it, is exceptionally well-written. fili (in sort of a callback to the scene with the eagles), calls out "thorRIIIIIIN!!!" just as he sees the pale orc veer in for the kill. he picks up the severed arm of an orc which is lying on the ground, swings it up in desperation, effectively blocking the pale orc's blow. and thus, forever after, fili is known as "fili orc-enshield." this earns him deep respect from his hard-to-please uncle. as well as a hug. kili wipes his boots on the pale orc's glory box. -- maciliel telpemairo
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Bracegirdle
Valinor
Jun 29 2014, 6:15pm
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Lobelia had to do the dishes. Now that there's scary! I don't care who you are - that there's scary.
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." -Albert Einstein
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Wilros
The Shire
Jun 29 2014, 6:50pm
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For me, the description of Shelob in general, and her eyes in particular are very creepy:
Even as Frodo spoke he felt a great malice bent upon him, and a deadly regard considering him. Not far down the tunnel, between them and the opening where they had reeled and stumbled, he was aware of eyes growing visible, two great clusters of many-windowed eyes – the coming menace was unmasked at last. The radiance of the star-glass was broken and thrown back from their thousand facets, but behind the glitter a pale deadly fire began steadily to glow within, a flame kindled in some deep pit of evil thought. Monstrous and abominable eyes they were, bestial and yet filled with purpose and with hideous delight, gloating over their prey trapped beyond all hope of escape.
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Neldoreth
The Shire
Jun 30 2014, 6:27pm
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That was definitely the scariest for me..it was the one scene I hesitated to read to my daughters! I did anyway, and they weren't nearly as bothered about it as I was! Oh, who am I kidding, it still gives me the creeps every time I read it!
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BlackFox
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Jul 19 2014, 2:01pm
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned this scene
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As they prepared for sleep in the inn at Bree, darkness lay on Buckland; a mist strayed in the dells and along the river-bank. The house at Crickhollow stood silent. Fatty Bolger opened the door cautiously and peered out. A feeling of fear had been growing on him all day, and he was unable to rest or go to bed: there was a brooding threat in the breathless night-air. As he stared out into the gloom, a black shadow moved under the trees; the gate seemed to open of its own accord and close again without a sound. Terror seized him. He shrank back, and for a moment he stood trembling in the hall. Then he shut and locked the door. The night deepened. There came the soft sound of horses led with stealth along the lane. Outside the gate they stopped, and three black figures entered, like shades of night creeping across the ground. One went to the door, one to the corner of the house on either side; and there they stood, as still as the shadows of stones, while night went slowly on. The house and the quiet trees seemed to be waiting breathlessly. There was a faint stir in the leaves, and a cock crowed far away. The cold hour before dawn was passing. The figure by the door moved. In the dark without moon or stars a drawn blade gleamed, as if a chill light had been unsheathed. [FOTR, Ch. 11: A Knife in the Dark] *shudders*
“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.” - Henry David Thoreau
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