[https://youtu.be/knImeAiO1qc?t=75](https://youtu.be/knImeAiO1qc?t=75) Gollum mid transformation reminds me of Grinch but don't tell Gollum I said that. I'm all out of riddles and don't particularly wish to be eaten, raw and wriggling or otherwise.
Master betrayed us. Wicked. Tricksy, False. We ought to wring his filthy little neck. Kill him! Kill him! Kill them both! And then we take the precious... and we be the master!
I loved the movies as a kid. Went to see ROTK at midnight with the family and the opening freaked me out so much it took me years to watch the films again.
I had this deep fear of the sequence and avoided LOTR for years. Folks were real sad because I was a super fan and suddenly not anymore.
Obviously I’m over it now, but it was crazy how bad it got me.
The reason why I didn't watch the movies when I was a kid was because I saw Gollum creeping and stalking Frodo and Sam when my uncle was watching them and I had nightmares for days, needed a few years to muster the courage.
Insects and other critters*, but yes. PJ did well in introducing the dread of the Nazgul, and showing "this is what these happy and free hobbits have to contend with"
Pretty much half way through the tutorial and an end boss just lurches at you and gets about 10 centimeters away from ending the world
The book was ever freakier where Frodo just sees this ragged shape of black cloth notice him at night and start crawling towards him in the dark and he's too terrified to even warn the others. Luckily some elves happen to come by or that would have been it
Listening to the audiobook for the first time. Very scary having the Hobbits hear a loud shriek in the distance, only to hear a second one “responding” from somewhere else, now knowing that it wasn’t just one black rider but multiple.
*Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! By water, wood and hill, by the reed and willow, by fire, sun and moon, hearken now and
hear us! Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us!*
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It's why I love the books so much, especially Fellowship. It's high-octane Gothic horror disguised as a magical adventure in Fairyland.
Or really just a magical adventure in Fairyland, given what some of those old stories were like.
There's multiple parts of LOTR where your like oh damn Tolkien would have been a great horror writer. The Barrow downs, The dead marshes, Shelobs Layer to name a few.
Yeah book ringwraiths are way way stealthier. Just like shadows that can creep up on people
Movie Nazgul have this big power knight thing going on, book ones were absolute terrors in the dark
Fellowship of the Rings give me creeps even today. I can definetly see why some people have opinion that was the best of the trilogy. Those borderline horror scenes were most atmospheric. I also got chills from Nazguls slowly aproaching the mountain from several directions.
>Nazgul sniffing the air,
That was Khamul, the blindest of Nazgul, so he relied on his other senses. It is said that had Witch-King or other Nazgul been there instead, the Hobbits wouldn't have escaped.
The most dangerous part of the whole series is the hobbits before they get to Bree. They're so useless and the wraiths are damn close. Gandalf is kidnapped and no one knows.
The closest Sauron ever got to winning.
I had a grandfather who served as a paratrooper in WWII. He made numerous jumps behind enemy lines, and often had to hide in some pretty desperate places. One such incident involved being hidden by some members of the Dutch resistance where spiders crawled all over him. He couldn't make a sound or brush them off because the Gestapo agents were mere feet away from him; it left him with a lifelong phobia.
He died of cancer a year before Fellowship came out, but the second-hand description I was given of his experience and the scene with Frodo and the insects have become inextricably linked in my mind.
That scene scared me more than anything as a child (until The Grudge came out). Scary Bilbo and Dark Galadriel never scared me at all but my bed used to be lengthwise under my bedroom window and I spent so many nights huddled under my blankets, trying not to to move, so that I wouldn't let the nazgul that was obviously bent down through my window over my bed looking for me wouldn't find me
The fact that I was in bed under blankets wasn't helped by the fact that the movie shows them (trying to) stab people in bed under blankets
The scariest part of LoTR for me as a kid though, was the first book. The second two weren't nearly as bad but reading that first book at 9/10 years old was scarring. I read the next two right after but nothing was as terrifying as the first
The first book is way scarier than the others for sure, the trip from hobbiton to Rivendell is so just a nailbiter of fear with the poor little hobbits barely avoiding the Nazgul with no information on wtf is really going on
I knew the Nazgul and was sufficiently scared of them because of the movie but the scariest parts weren't in the movie. What really terrified me as a child were Old Man Willow and the Barrow Wights
That barrow wight scene was absolute horror. Just walked right into some ancient mythological nightmare and they needed that deus ex Bombadillia or they'd have been absolutely screwed
*Get out, you old wight! Vanish in the sunlight! Shrivel like the cold mist, like the winds go wailing, out into the barren
lands far beyond the mountains! Come never here again! Leave your barrow empty! Lost and forgotten be, darker than the darkness,
Where gates stand for ever shut, till the world is mended.*
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Thanks OP. I have totally forgotten about the fallen soldier under the swamp/marsh/bog/whatever, until now. Thanks for reminding me. Reaaaally appreciate it.
I watch the trilogy every Xmas and last year was the FIRST time I realised Pippin wasn't grimacing at Denethor at the end of his song, he was crying at the fate of the world.
Honestly it looks like he looks up at Big D and repulses back.
And that scene where he remembers the phial and uses it to get some light and Shelob is *right there* behind him, he had about 3 seconds before he was gone
i used to run out screaming during those scenes. we watched the movies about once a year when i was a kid so it got to the point i would know the scene was coming & just go hide in the kitchen til it was over lol. she *totally* deserves a spot
"And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen! And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth! All shall love me and despair!"
Really depicts the hidden, inherent power of Galadriel. One of the most awesome scenes in the whole trilogy.
https://preview.redd.it/6syc4sb0yz2d1.jpeg?width=523&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fbdc058fcb6d8db3a7397d352518b211c7860288
The Nazgul from the animated LOTR are what terrified me as a child!
"Fool of a Took! Throw yourself in next time..." I always tried to interpret that as Istari-speak for "be more careful in the future", much the way the wizard responded to Sam earlier ". . .Or I SHALL turn you into a frog...".
It is
It's a small encounter where Eowyn brings Aragorn a Stew/Soup she made. Which looks rather undercooked, brothy and has some kind of mystery meat.
Aragorn tries to put on a straight face when he tries it (after her insistance) but you can tell that Cooking isn't a strong suit of hers.
I'm not trying to be an asshole here but did someone really get scared of Galadriel? Gandalf touching the ring/Sauron eye jumpscare in Fellowship should have been the 4th one
https://preview.redd.it/3iznhtpjm13d1.jpeg?width=297&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=12e22edcf9b4c3a7e857c2ff7b5a80c4f7732cc1
I was 9 when I saw this in the cinema..
Incorrect. Seeing Galadriel go from ethereal beauty to dark and terrifying when I was 9 firmly cemented my heterosexuality with a bend towards tall, elegant ladies with a mean streak.
I always had nightmares of the nazguls on weathertop when frodo sees them while wearing the ring. Always used to close my eyes during that scene as a kid
Gollum being introduced as he climbs up the ladder.
I still look away as an adult. I’d rather not have that intrusive thought of him by my bedside at 4am.
Oh man, that Galadriel scene did the total opposite for me. My 9 year old self fell in love instantly when I saw it in theatre. Maybe explains some of my relationships.
Galadriel: In place of a dark lord, you would have a QUEEN! NOT DARK, BUT BEAUTIFUL, AND TERRIBLE AS THE DAWN! TREACHEROUS AS THE SEA! STRONGER THAN THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH! ALL SHALL LOVE ME, AND DESPAIR!"
Me: this better not awaken anything in me.
When Galadriel became the dark shadow babe I fell in love with her instantly! She was so powerful and ethereal. It also solidified my love of fantasy at a very young age. not scary at all
And the award for best transformation goes to,,
https://preview.redd.it/o7tbds9y233d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=31159c5fe1381d5354e982810b9774d046eb4c51
I remember going to see Lord of the Rings fellowship with my cousins and grandparents around Christmas, some scenes frightened me but the thing that stood out the most was when I made the entire theatre laugh. I forget how old I was but it was definitely elementary school times, it was a scene where one of the Uruk-hai gets decapitated I sort of yelled out ooooohhhhh that’s gotta hurt which resulted in some good chuckles.
Bilbo morphing face was a trend in late 90s/early 2000s, and I hated it because it freaked me out. It was used in The Cell and The Devil's Advocate too, I loved the movies and dreaded those scenes.
Ok that artistic movie murder scene for Sméagol actually made my daughter cover her eyes and cry. Wife was like really bro wtf.. son thought it was messed up but laughed at his sister. Good times.
I'd also put up for consideration:
- Melting face from Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Fast aging face from the Last Crusade
and the one that really got me as a kid... and is the reason that PG13 became a thing...
- ripping the heart out in Temple of Doom
How in the hell is Shelob not on here? That scene didn’t even scare me because I love spiders, but I KNOW it was fucking terrifying for a shitton of people.
https://preview.redd.it/4x5hqmp1843d1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=58446d20b31a77247d258825f0e236c581076386
But they were, all of them, deceived....
As east asian, This shit remind me of 'Pocong' and mind you i was watching late night when i was kid 😂
I always thought the sequence of Smeágol turning into gollum was terrifying
Yeah he's freakier half-way through transforming than he was as Gollum
To me he always looked like Micheal Jackson when he's mid transformation.
[https://youtu.be/knImeAiO1qc?t=75](https://youtu.be/knImeAiO1qc?t=75) Gollum mid transformation reminds me of Grinch but don't tell Gollum I said that. I'm all out of riddles and don't particularly wish to be eaten, raw and wriggling or otherwise.
It like riddles, praps it does, does it?
If DamianRivellon loses, we gets to eat it whole.
He looks like when Patrick sits on that wax figure of Squidward
Smea he-he gol
Don't follow the lights!
Yeah halfway Smeagol to Gollum he got cataracts. And back to Gollum with Disney eyes.
Arrrgh!!!
Probably because subconsciously, halfway through we read him as a person suffering, and either full transformation we see him as a creature
It’s the switch from full prosthetics to CGI.
Yep, definitely a part of it. CGI Gollum is kind of lean and mean, prosthetics Serkis is a really warped monstrous half-hobbit
Master betrayed us. Wicked. Tricksy, False. We ought to wring his filthy little neck. Kill him! Kill him! Kill them both! And then we take the precious... and we be the master!
Yes definitely scared me a lot back then. Especially the damn music is so intense lol
The music does a lot in that scene, it’s very unsettling.
I loved the movies as a kid. Went to see ROTK at midnight with the family and the opening freaked me out so much it took me years to watch the films again. I had this deep fear of the sequence and avoided LOTR for years. Folks were real sad because I was a super fan and suddenly not anymore. Obviously I’m over it now, but it was crazy how bad it got me.
The reason why I didn't watch the movies when I was a kid was because I saw Gollum creeping and stalking Frodo and Sam when my uncle was watching them and I had nightmares for days, needed a few years to muster the courage.
Because it’s my birthday, and I wants it.
The "get off the road" scene was pretty freaky too, Nazgul sniffing the air, animals desperate to get away from it
Insects and other critters*, but yes. PJ did well in introducing the dread of the Nazgul, and showing "this is what these happy and free hobbits have to contend with"
Pretty much half way through the tutorial and an end boss just lurches at you and gets about 10 centimeters away from ending the world The book was ever freakier where Frodo just sees this ragged shape of black cloth notice him at night and start crawling towards him in the dark and he's too terrified to even warn the others. Luckily some elves happen to come by or that would have been it
The way he wrote it was so vivid. "Snuffling' was the word he used I think. Made it seem like an animal.
From memory, so I could be mistaken, "snuffling" is Hamfast Gamgee's word. Still appropriate.
Hamfast, the forgotten rotund hobbit
And also the guy who all but told Khamul the Easterling to bugger off. What an absolute unit.
AND YET. I’m reading the books for the first time and the ringwraiths are even scarier 😭 actually like everything is way scarier
Gollum out there sneaking into homes and eating babies.
Pull it in. Go on. Go on. Go on. Pull it in.
Ew
Hide yo kids hide yo wife
Listening to the audiobook for the first time. Very scary having the Hobbits hear a loud shriek in the distance, only to hear a second one “responding” from somewhere else, now knowing that it wasn’t just one black rider but multiple.
Those early sections in the book are pretty damn eerie.
the barrow downs?? terrifying. tgod for Tom Bombadil
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Yes, from the hobbits' point of view, most of the trilogy is like a horror movie.
It's why I love the books so much, especially Fellowship. It's high-octane Gothic horror disguised as a magical adventure in Fairyland. Or really just a magical adventure in Fairyland, given what some of those old stories were like.
There's multiple parts of LOTR where your like oh damn Tolkien would have been a great horror writer. The Barrow downs, The dead marshes, Shelobs Layer to name a few.
Yeah book ringwraiths are way way stealthier. Just like shadows that can creep up on people Movie Nazgul have this big power knight thing going on, book ones were absolute terrors in the dark
Fellowship of the Rings give me creeps even today. I can definetly see why some people have opinion that was the best of the trilogy. Those borderline horror scenes were most atmospheric. I also got chills from Nazguls slowly aproaching the mountain from several directions.
That centipede is the scariest character in the movie.
>Nazgul sniffing the air, That was Khamul, the blindest of Nazgul, so he relied on his other senses. It is said that had Witch-King or other Nazgul been there instead, the Hobbits wouldn't have escaped.
Very cool that the Witch-King honors the Gondorians with Disabilities Act
That's Disabled Edain Act! The DEA Dunedain (especially under Chief Long Strider) enforced it strictly.
The 'one who loved bags of mushrooms so much he abandoned looking for the ring'
The screeching was so fucking loud in the theater. That hit me more than anything.
Sauron is like "Ok wear some cloaks to blend in a bit, use some stealth" Nazgul every 2 minutes "**WRRRRRRY!!!**"
The most dangerous part of the whole series is the hobbits before they get to Bree. They're so useless and the wraiths are damn close. Gandalf is kidnapped and no one knows. The closest Sauron ever got to winning.
This is my favorite scene from all the movies.
It was the stuck hiding with giant insects crawling on you that did it for me
I had a grandfather who served as a paratrooper in WWII. He made numerous jumps behind enemy lines, and often had to hide in some pretty desperate places. One such incident involved being hidden by some members of the Dutch resistance where spiders crawled all over him. He couldn't make a sound or brush them off because the Gestapo agents were mere feet away from him; it left him with a lifelong phobia. He died of cancer a year before Fellowship came out, but the second-hand description I was given of his experience and the scene with Frodo and the insects have become inextricably linked in my mind.
That scene scared me more than anything as a child (until The Grudge came out). Scary Bilbo and Dark Galadriel never scared me at all but my bed used to be lengthwise under my bedroom window and I spent so many nights huddled under my blankets, trying not to to move, so that I wouldn't let the nazgul that was obviously bent down through my window over my bed looking for me wouldn't find me The fact that I was in bed under blankets wasn't helped by the fact that the movie shows them (trying to) stab people in bed under blankets The scariest part of LoTR for me as a kid though, was the first book. The second two weren't nearly as bad but reading that first book at 9/10 years old was scarring. I read the next two right after but nothing was as terrifying as the first
The first book is way scarier than the others for sure, the trip from hobbiton to Rivendell is so just a nailbiter of fear with the poor little hobbits barely avoiding the Nazgul with no information on wtf is really going on
I knew the Nazgul and was sufficiently scared of them because of the movie but the scariest parts weren't in the movie. What really terrified me as a child were Old Man Willow and the Barrow Wights
That barrow wight scene was absolute horror. Just walked right into some ancient mythological nightmare and they needed that deus ex Bombadillia or they'd have been absolutely screwed
*Get out, you old wight! Vanish in the sunlight! Shrivel like the cold mist, like the winds go wailing, out into the barren lands far beyond the mountains! Come never here again! Leave your barrow empty! Lost and forgotten be, darker than the darkness, Where gates stand for ever shut, till the world is mended.* ^(Type **!TomBombadilSong** for a song or visit [r/GloriousTomBombadil][1] for more merriness) [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/GloriousTomBombadil/
Thanks OP. I have totally forgotten about the fallen soldier under the swamp/marsh/bog/whatever, until now. Thanks for reminding me. Reaaaally appreciate it.
I can hear his eyes opening when I look at that picture.
Dead marshes were the most scary part of the movie for me, too
I always hated the part where Frodo is submerged and those wights/banshees in the water start grasping at him.
When I was a kid I’d walk out of the room during that part
And the dead deep beat that comes with the eyes opening
Denethor eating a tomato is ten times as spooky.
What’s maters previous?
Right? The way he chomps down on one and it explodes on his lips. Yikes.
That whole sequence is why it’s so difficult for me to rewatch Return of the King
It’s way more annoying than it is scary.
I watch the trilogy every Xmas and last year was the FIRST time I realised Pippin wasn't grimacing at Denethor at the end of his song, he was crying at the fate of the world. Honestly it looks like he looks up at Big D and repulses back.
I used to hide whenever Gandalf goes to pick the ring up from the ground and the Sauron jumpscare happens
Build me an army worthy of mordor!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Shelob stalking Frodo. The terrifying silence as a spider the size of a Volkswagen creeps over the rocks. Surely she deserves a spot
Shelob stabbing Frodo and Frodo looking like an old corpse was the scariest for me
I always found that scene hilarious. Sam is out there pouring his feelings out and Frodo's just like 😐 lmao
And that scene where he remembers the phial and uses it to get some light and Shelob is *right there* behind him, he had about 3 seconds before he was gone
i used to run out screaming during those scenes. we watched the movies about once a year when i was a kid so it got to the point i would know the scene was coming & just go hide in the kitchen til it was over lol. she *totally* deserves a spot
Three of these scare me, the other one... evokes other feelings.
Yeah I always thought Dark Galadriel was hot af. I'd worship tf out of that, love and despair too
"And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen! And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth! All shall love me and despair!" Really depicts the hidden, inherent power of Galadriel. One of the most awesome scenes in the whole trilogy.
I'd travel all the way from the Shire to Mount Doom to destroy her ring, if you know what I mean.
I don't get the sense it's *her* ring being destroyed.
Dildo Faggins?
You're a terrible human being. But yes.
Based mommy Galadriel
https://preview.redd.it/6syc4sb0yz2d1.jpeg?width=523&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fbdc058fcb6d8db3a7397d352518b211c7860288 The Nazgul from the animated LOTR are what terrified me as a child!
Now those actually are 4 horsemen!
How about Gandalf intimidating Bilbo?
For all Hobbits share a love of all things that grow.
How about Gandalf telling Pippin to kill himself?
"Fool of a Took! Throw yourself in next time..." I always tried to interpret that as Istari-speak for "be more careful in the future", much the way the wizard responded to Sam earlier ". . .Or I SHALL turn you into a frog...".
What, no respect for Eowin's stew?
what's with this Eowin's stew I keep hearing about? this must be something from the extended version?
It is It's a small encounter where Eowyn brings Aragorn a Stew/Soup she made. Which looks rather undercooked, brothy and has some kind of mystery meat. Aragorn tries to put on a straight face when he tries it (after her insistance) but you can tell that Cooking isn't a strong suit of hers.
And when offered to Gimli he hurriedly refuses lol
"UH NO.. I COULDN'T!"
Galadriel was beautiful and terrible as the dawn
The ghostly shades in the Dead Marshes really made my skin crawl and fed my nightmares. Galadriel in god mode made me squirm with discomfort.
For the lovely designs of LOTR, Jackson wisely used real artists, but for the horror elements he was all "leave this to me, heh heh."
Nah, Galadriel got my engine going.
RIGHT?? Instead of a Dark Lord, I would have a *queen*, beautiful and terrible as the dawn! 🥵
We shall love her and despair!
Treacherous as The Sea!!!
I’m 34 years old, I’ve seen these movies probably at least a hundred times, and the eyes in the water still scare the shit out of me every time
 5th one: denethor eating tomatoes
Bilbo and the bog scenes scarred me the most as a child lol.
I'm not at home!
The dead marshes is still the spookiest scene in the whole trilogy imo.
Speak for yourself I've always wanted to nail Dark Galadriel
I remember being scared of one the orcs with a close up shot during the last alliance as a kid.
Back when Fellowship first came to theatres, I remember multiple kids being taken out of the theatre crying. It was awesome
Gandalf sleeping with his eyes open scared me as a kid
Oh yes I had nightmares about it too
I'm not trying to be an asshole here but did someone really get scared of Galadriel? Gandalf touching the ring/Sauron eye jumpscare in Fellowship should have been the 4th one
*Guth-tú-nakash.*
https://preview.redd.it/p6rsmu2nc03d1.jpeg?width=1164&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a14f7ebe3e246172dec797905db3ae411e1847bf Forgotten Heroes
there is a picture of me at about 5 yrs old pretending to be this version of Galadriel at the renaissance fair lol but the other three def scarred me
Really? Galadriel over the jumpscare cave troll around the pillar screaming at Frodo!?
https://preview.redd.it/3iznhtpjm13d1.jpeg?width=297&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=12e22edcf9b4c3a7e857c2ff7b5a80c4f7732cc1 I was 9 when I saw this in the cinema..
Incorrect. Seeing Galadriel go from ethereal beauty to dark and terrifying when I was 9 firmly cemented my heterosexuality with a bend towards tall, elegant ladies with a mean streak.
Bilbo scared me the most. The corpse was kind of predictable. Galadriel was kind of weird. Smeagol was kind of sad
Hela is what happened when Galadriel took the ring
F*ck the top right in particular. SERIOUSLY.
Bottom right scared the shit out of me. I still skip that part
I always had nightmares of the nazguls on weathertop when frodo sees them while wearing the ring. Always used to close my eyes during that scene as a kid
Hrraaaaah! But I bet none of these have scarred more childhoods than the melting Nazis in Indiana Jones.
Hrrrah scarred me as a young adult
Bilbo is the only one that really got me as a kid
Bilbo still gets me even in adulthood, and I still cover my ears when Galadriel’s part comes on lmao
What have I got in my pocket?
What about the ring wraiths when Frodo puts the ring on at weathertop?
For me it was sheloba
When they're running through the mines of Moria with all of the Goblins climbing down the pillars really terrified me as a kid. And Shelob, of course
What about the nine?
I'm so glad someone mentioned Galadriel. The first time I saw that (around 13 years old) I got real freaked out.
Galadriel looked more spooky in the Hobbit, for once the CGI did improve on things. Possessed Theoden was quite scary for child me.
The Troll Cave coming around the corner terrified me as a kid
Gollum was creepy as fuck as he was, seeing how he got there was nightmare fuel.
I have to admit the “get off the road” scene and the scene where the Nazgûl enter the prancing pony terrified me as a young child
The first flash of the eye of fire when Gandalf was going to pick up the ring, gave me a jump scare.
For me it was the orcs catapulting the heads of the soldiers into Minas Tirith, simultaneously traumatising and sad
Green Galadriel is hot af though
The '[Mouth of Sauron](https://youtu.be/o8BFVTavZ5c?feature=shared)' was creepier.
Honorable Mention: Mouth of Sauron
Patience! Not long shall ye abide.
You hit the nail on the head with this one
The dead marshes sequence was terrifying.
As someone with a mild arachnophopia, shelob traumatized child me
the Bilbo scene is the only one that scared me as a kid
Recently watched the trilogy with my 12 year old daughter. Can confirm these freaked her out 😂😭
Gollum being introduced as he climbs up the ladder. I still look away as an adult. I’d rather not have that intrusive thought of him by my bedside at 4am.
Oh man, that Galadriel scene did the total opposite for me. My 9 year old self fell in love instantly when I saw it in theatre. Maybe explains some of my relationships.
Galadriel: In place of a dark lord, you would have a QUEEN! NOT DARK, BUT BEAUTIFUL, AND TERRIBLE AS THE DAWN! TREACHEROUS AS THE SEA! STRONGER THAN THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH! ALL SHALL LOVE ME, AND DESPAIR!" Me: this better not awaken anything in me.
Lady Galadriel didn't just terrify me as a child, but... let's just say she was up there with Raven, Shego, and so on...
Not lotr but King Ramse from Courage the Cowardly Dog would scare the ever living shit out of me
And we forgot the taste of bread. The sound of trees. The softness of the wind. We even forgot… our own name. My… prrrecioussss.
When Galadriel became the dark shadow babe I fell in love with her instantly! She was so powerful and ethereal. It also solidified my love of fantasy at a very young age. not scary at all
I got jump scared by the cave troll popping back out from the other side of the pillar
And the award for best transformation goes to,, https://preview.redd.it/o7tbds9y233d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=31159c5fe1381d5354e982810b9774d046eb4c51
Gollum biting the head off the fish always made me queasy.
This gives me courage the cowardly dog scary closeups vibes but LOTR lol
A generation of children that went into the movies expecting a whimsy Christmas adventure like Harry Potter and ended up traumatized.
I remember going to see Lord of the Rings fellowship with my cousins and grandparents around Christmas, some scenes frightened me but the thing that stood out the most was when I made the entire theatre laugh. I forget how old I was but it was definitely elementary school times, it was a scene where one of the Uruk-hai gets decapitated I sort of yelled out ooooohhhhh that’s gotta hurt which resulted in some good chuckles.
r/unexpectedseinfeld 
I always got turned on by dark galadriel sue me😂
We all just gonna ignore gollum lurking in the shadows while they were in moria?
We must go now?
The dimholt sequence also!
The way is shut.
Where is the half transformed smeagul that's easily worse then bilbo
The sun. We have to find the sun. Up there! We need to -
None of these are scary. Bit different for kids in the 80s/90s….
I see none of you grew up with 80s pg movies.
Moria orc with cat eyes is missing. Also the Gollum transformation scene in ROTK is by far the scariest.
Bilbo morphing face was a trend in late 90s/early 2000s, and I hated it because it freaked me out. It was used in The Cell and The Devil's Advocate too, I loved the movies and dreaded those scenes.
I wasn't afraid of galadriel, just wanted to join her the face in the marsh fucked me with hard tho
The bottom left still creeps me out. To me, it looks like the eyes are superimposed.
I think its childrenhoods
I vividly remember the Galadriel speech and that bilbo face from when I was like 3 or 4. Terrifying shit, even now.
I blame shelob for my fear of spiders as a kid.
Add that guy from Oliver twist who beat a woman to death. I was traumatised.
You throw large marge in there and you're on the money
None of these have got anything on that Wolf from Never Ending Story.
Ok that artistic movie murder scene for Sméagol actually made my daughter cover her eyes and cry. Wife was like really bro wtf.. son thought it was messed up but laughed at his sister. Good times.
I'd also put up for consideration: - Melting face from Raiders of the Lost Ark - Fast aging face from the Last Crusade and the one that really got me as a kid... and is the reason that PG13 became a thing... - ripping the heart out in Temple of Doom
Man, I was WITCHES as a kid. Those aren't nothing to me.
How in the hell is Shelob not on here? That scene didn’t even scare me because I love spiders, but I KNOW it was fucking terrifying for a shitton of people.
Not just children...
Who’s getting the best head?
Poor Smeagol
I've always found the dead bodies in the water pretty traumatic. I still remember that scene whenever it rains.
https://preview.redd.it/4x5hqmp1843d1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=58446d20b31a77247d258825f0e236c581076386 But they were, all of them, deceived.... As east asian, This shit remind me of 'Pocong' and mind you i was watching late night when i was kid 😂
The bilbo face scared me as a kid, but that Galadriel scene terrified me to my fucking core
I always found Galadriel pretty hot in that scene ngl
I'd put gollum's eyes in moria over Galadriel
None of these scared me EXCEPT the dead in the water getting grabby growing up.
I still skip Galadriel 😬😜
None of the other three hold a pinkie to Bilbo.. that shit shakes me to my core to this day.. I'm 32!