Guildo - do not say thing you've seen in the movie, for it is terrible. it doesn't make sense in many ways.... just a spell of Sauron? wait till you meet him. Paths of the Dead and Gondolin, I never thought of that, but it seems quite unlikely if not impossible.
Yet I think that the faces and candles were living dead. As Gollum says (I don't have the book here, so this ain't the exact quote): 'Sss, ack, don't look in the water, my preciousss...it's candles, corpses of candles.'
So I believe that they are corps candles. These are creatures (living dead) that lure people of all kinds to themselves and in that way betray them to their death, by draining their lifeforce from them. The light is the lure.
greetings,
lathspell
P.S.: I guess that this is also why Frodo stood looking in the water, hearing and seeing nothing else until Sam saved him.
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'You?' cried Frodo.
'Yes, I, Gandalf the Grey,' said the wizard solemnly. 'There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is coming.'
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