I thought they were absolutely terrifying. But they did need to do more sniffing, although all of the appropriate parts for this were more or less cut out of the movie: before Gildor, on the way to the Old Forest, etc. Perhaps their voices could have been less hissing, too. It seemed to me that they spoke semi-normally, just with a creepy edge, in the books.
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"Come, come!" he shouted, swinging his axe. "Since Gandalf's head is now sacred, let us find one that is right to cleave!"
-Gimli, after hearing Galadriel's message to him in TTT
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