The scariest characters in the LOTR?

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by ninja91

Scary? Well, put it this way: would you rather be locked in a castle with the Balrog or the Mouth of Sauron lurking around?

The Mouth of Sauron definitely takes the cake here for me. Plus, he is just so mysterious and unknown...

Oh, I would like to be there with the Mouth, rather. Though he might be a mad, fanatic sadistic sorcerer, he is still a human (at least a little bit). You might call his name through empty corridors and try to negotiate, and you can expect his reactions (though they can be negative, or just a mocking laughter from somewhere, but still it is something you can expect, however terrifying it might be). The balrog then is something definitely... alien. You don't know what it thinks about, it even does not have to speak at all, it might look like a beast in flames or it can douse a be just a shadow lurking in the darkness... (Not to mention you don't even know if it has wings!) I wouldn't want to be locked in a castle or catacombs with something like that, I can quite understand the Dwarves in Moria. (Has anyone seen the movie Alien 3? This is how it could look like.)

Ha, seems I unintentionally answered the question. The Balrog it is for me.

Originally Posted by Lord Halsar

and didn't Gandalf hold onto it's leg while he was down in the REALLY deep places. you don't grap onto the leg of a frightening monster.

Well, this only speaks that there were REALLY much more frightening monsters down there ("nameless things"). And after all, when you get so far to fight something, it is not so scary then. The point is, Gandalf could fight it. I, being in his place, well... uh.