![]() ![]() Tolkien described the creature to have twenty-one tentacles, Peter Jackson instead gave it twelve visible tentacles (this was due to the effects team finding that twenty-one tentacles were difficult to render properly). After the gate is blocked, the Fellowship is then forced to travel into the darkness of Moria.ĭuring the scene in the Chamber of Mazarbul, the fact that the Watcher killed Óin is omitted from Gandalf's reading of the Book of Mazarbul.Īlthough J.R.R. ![]() Just as they make it inside, the Watcher tears down the doorway, and the way out is blocked by falling rocks. Legolas shoots the Watcher in the eye as the Fellowship of the Ring retreats into the Mines of Moria. The Watcher drops Frodo when it is injured and he is caught by Boromir. The rest of the Fellowship, who attempt to injure the many serpentine tentacles of the Watcher, save him. It catches Frodo and lifts him in the air, despite Samwise Gamgee's attempts to defend him. (This differs from the novel, in which it was Boromir who disturbed the water by throwing a stone.) In either case, by the time the riddle of the Door is figured out ("Speak 'friend' and enter." - by Frodo in the film and Gandalf in the original novel), the Watcher is already provoked. In the movie, the Watcher is disturbed by Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took, who throw rocks in the water to pass the time while Gandalf tries to figure out the password to gain entrance to Moria. The Watcher in the Water is seen in Peter Jackson's The Fellowship of the Ring as a very detailed computer-generated creature. The Watcher going after the Fellowship with its tentacles in The Fellowship of the Ring (film). Portrayal in adaptations The Lord of the Rings film trilogy The Fellowship (including Óin's nephew, Gimli) later learn that the Watcher was responsible for Óin's death, after Gandalf read the account written by Ori in the Book of Mazarbul. Gandalf silently noted to himself that the creature had reached for Frodo first of all the members of the Fellowship. The enraged monster's tentacles tore down the ancient holly trees which stood on either side of the doors, the gate, and many boulders, thus trapping the Fellowship inside the darkness of Moria. Gandalf then commanded that the Fellowship run inside the gate to escape the Watcher's wrath. Sam slashed at the tentacles that were grabbing his friend, managed to injure the monster and it released the hobbit. After Gandalf opened the gates and the Fellowship moved towards the entrance, the Watcher attacked Frodo, using its many long tentacles to grab hold of his legs. As they pondered the riddle of the Doors of Durin, Boromir threw a rock into the water. When the Fellowship arrived by the pool of water, many immediately began to feel an evil feeling emanating from the water. During the attempted recolonization of Moria by the Dwarves, the Watcher devoured Óin when his reconnaissance party visited the West Gate. The Watcher was thought to have emerged from beneath Moria, as Gandalf noted that "older, fouler things than Orcs" dwelt in the deep places of the world. ![]()
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