The scariest characters in the LOTR?

[The 1,000 Reader]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

I wouldn't call Elendil&Gil-Galad "minor characters" In the LotR book they do not appear, of course, but personally I think that at their times they must have been more famous than seven Boromirs put together. Oh, and we don't see the tower once, we see it at least three times I think, maybe more. But this doesn't matter.

The thing is, we didn't know that, Elendil and Gil-Galad didn't do very much, and they weren't packing any powerful First Age muscles or strong magic. They were not too far from the main characters in LOTR, and the reader doesn't really know about them. That is what I mean.

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

There is, however, still one moment where Sauron seems creepy to me, and it is the moment when Pippin looks to the Palantír. There Sauron looks exactly how I think he should all the time - this is the closest we get to him. He speaks (through Pippin, but...), he is scary, well, I think this is one of the most emotionally thrilling moments of the book.

He wasn't that scary to me. Pippin was probably already afraid of the palantir's power, and Sauron was just puzzled and then simply told Pippin that Saruman wasn't getting "his piece of the pie," so to speak. Besides, Pippin's a hobbit and barely knows anything about the world.