In response to Diamond 18, Gollum's warning about dying for falling in the pools may suggest some sort of threat from the faces, but not necessarily.<P>The ability for Hobbits to fall in and die in such fetid/mucky pools through the more prosaic effects of drowning was all that I read into Gollum's words. In the book he'd gone in and come out, only disappointed that there was nothing he could reach, as opposed to any suggestion of having eluded hideous wraithy-like things.<P>So, again, I think Mr. Jackson has for his own love of frightening, cinematic effects gone down a more superficial, and less likely way to understand the Dead Marshes relative to the vision of the Author of the Books from his interpretations of the Red Book. Alas!
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The hoes unrecked in the fields were flung, __ and fallen ladders in the long grass lay __ of the lush orchards; every tree there turned __ its tangled head and eyed them secretly, __ and the ears listened of the nodding grasses; __ though noontide glowed on land and leaf, __ their limbs were chilled.
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