The Watcher in the Water

[Airetauriel]

Originally posted by Shire_Folk:
<STRONG>I believe Gandalf said something about it coming from the deeps of the sea. Or the deeps of something. I can't quote it without a book handy. Anyway it was when they were in moria that he said something about it.

I think the Kraken was a nice touch. Wasn't it suppose to just slam the west gate closed instead of destroying the gate like in the movie?</STRONG>

This is the only dialogue relating to it, after the gate is closed behind them:

" 'I felt something horrible was near from the first time my foot touched the water,' said Frodo. 'What was the thing, or were there many of them?'
'I do not know,' answered Gandalf; 'but the arms were all guided by one purpose. Something has crept, or has been driven out of dark waters under the mountains. There are older and fouler things than orcs in the deep places of the world.' He did not speak aloud his thought that whatever it was that dwelt in the lake, it had seized on Frodo first in all the Company. "

No more, no less. I'm still interested in what it might be - I've done some research on the Kraken in the past but does anyone know why it comes up here??? (apart from the sense of foreboding, that still doesn't explain why it's a Kraken) Did Tolkein have some special interest?

Airetauriel