Ghosts, myths and legends of Middle-earth

[Lalwendë]

You should have a look for one of my 'horror' or Gothic threads, I've started a couple - I love all that stuff and Tolkien is great at it! I've found loads of scary things!

The top all-time scary thing has got to be the Witch-king's line to Eowyn:

He will bear thee away to the houses of lamentation, beyond all darkness, where thy flesh shall be devoured, and thy shrivelled mind be left naked to the Lidless Eye

That's just.......horrible!

And this is the second most frightening thing in all of Tolkien:

The Men of Darkness built temples, some of great size, usually surrounded by dark trees, often in caverns (natural or delved) in secret valleys of mountain-regions; such as the dreadful halls and passages under the Haunted Mountain beyond the Dark Door (Gate of the Dead) in Dunharrow. The special horror of the closed door before which the skeleton of Baldor was found was probably due to the fact that the door was the entrance to an evil temple hall to which Baldor had come, probably without opposition up to that point. But the door was shut in his face, and enemies that had followed him silently came up and broke his legs and left him to die in the darkness, unable to find any way out.

Vile!