Frightening!

[A-U Moderators]

Is there any sequence that you find particularly frightening, thrilling, or suspenseful?

[Lostariel]

Shelob *shudder* The way it moves and how real and spidery it is. I can barely watch it. Ew I'm all creeped out even thinking about it now. I can deal with people fighting orcs and cutting each other up (just, but it comes pretty close to me hiding behind the couch sometimes) but spiders and getting caught in webs is too much for me.

Edit: Oops this is a FotR forum isn't it. Sorry. But a moment that drives me crazy in FotR is when Frodo's running to jump onto the ferry. I know he's going to make it, but that doesn't stop me having to yell at the TV screen.

[Kitoky]

Shelob wasn't in Fellowship of the Ring though --- I mean, I agree, the Shelob sequence was rather surprising and tense.

I think the Barrow-Downs did it for me when it came to really frightening parts of the book.

[Eä]

I hated the Old Forest and The Barrow-Downs... and I was quite uncomfortable about Old Man Willow. I mean not even the Nine scared me as much as a tree! At least they had real flesh-and-blood horses!

Reading about the Hobbits going through the Old Forest was in the very beginning of the journey. I think I might have still been slightly anxious about what I was reading, not fully knowing what to expect. The Forest was so eerie and you never knew whether it was going to close down on the intruders and consume them. That's why Old Man Willow was so frightening too, because he contained so much of Natures ancient power. And it written quite claustrophobic!

But I think the Barrow-Downs really did it for me. I was so scared when Frodo got seperated from his friends, seriously, it was like being all alone in the fog without knowing whether you were going to be eaten, skinned, knocked out or have life sucked out of you from cold, boney hands... *shudder*

[Lor En Estel]

Mine was probably when Frodo and the other hobbits were trying to get to Bree. I kept waiting for a Wraith to kill them all at any moment. Weathertop was also an intense seen though probably more intense in the movie.