Beautiful enough that you'd kill to possess it. The most beautiful thing you've ever seen in your life.

The Ring would be less scary if it looked like an Obviously Evil Artifact of Doom.

It shows it doesn't need looks to take over you. But it's simply a small gold wedding ring. You'd expect something crafted by a Dark Lord to be made of black metal with a skull-shaped ruby in the center, or something obvious like that.

It also makes one wonder how Fëanor and sons looked and sounded when they swore their rash oath.

Galadriel's temptation by the Ring, with absurd amounts of reverb on her voice as she declares herself 'Beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Treacherous as the seas! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth! All shall love me and despair!'.

Speaking of Galadriel, the genuinely unsettling calm, pleasant, soothing nature in which she acts, contrasting sharply with the demonically dark side she displays whenever she becomes angry or power-mad.

A surprisingly disturbing moment (and also very subtle) is when she mentions 'Rumor grew of a shadow in the East Whispers of a nameless fear' and it's intercut with a shot of a moonlit swamp, and two shadows that look either like a couple submerged tree trunks or legs. There is something so unsettling about her narration, especially when combined with the clips of darkened forests and swamps that follow.

Galadriel's 'Darkness crept back into the forests of the world' exposition.

' BILBO BAGGINS!!' The sweet, jovial old wizard of a man we saw in Gandalf suddenly darkening the room around himself and shouting with a primal fury makes the Ring-corrupted Bilbo so utterly terrified you'd think he soiled himself on the spot.

You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you'll be swept off to. It's a dangerous thing, Frodo, going out your door. Frodo: This is what? Sam: If I take one more step, it will be the farthest from home I've ever been. Sam stops on the edge of a field of wheat. Sam: This is it. Frodo and Sam cross fields, going towards Bree. Remember, the Ring is trying to get back to its master. Is it safe? Frodo: pats his pocket, where the Ring is hidden Gandalf: Never put it on! The servants of the Dark Lord will be drawn to its power. The three stop under the trees. Gandalf: Be careful, both of you. Gandalf and Frodo walking, Gandalf leading his horse. Gandalf: Come along, Samwise, keep up! Sam runs to catch up.

Please don't hurt me, sir, don't turn me into anything unnatural. That is, I heard a good deal about a ring, and a dark lord, and something about the end of the world. Gandalf: What did you hear? Speak! Sam: Nothing important.

Gandalf: A bit late for trimming the verge. Hauls Sam in by the scruff of his neck. Gandalf: Confound it all, Samwise Gamgee, have you been eavesdropping? Sam: I ain't been dropping no eaves, sir, honest, I was just cutting the grass outside the window, if you follow me. You can learn everything there is to know about their ways in a month, and after a hundred years they can still surprise you! Gandalf: (hears a noise outside the window) Get down! Frodo drops to the floor, Gandalf reaches out the window with his staff, hits something. Gandalf: (stops, looking at Frodo, who is within minutes packed, cloaked, and ready for a long and dangerous journey)ĭear Frodo. Frodo: I can cut across country easily enough. Travel only by day, and stay off the road. You must leave the name of Baggins behind you, for that name is not safe outside the Shire. Frodo: And the Ring will be safe there? Gandalf: I don't know, Frodo. Frodo: What about you? Gandalf: I will wait for you at the Inn of the Prancing Pony. Frodo: Where? Gandalf: Get out of the Shire. Frodo: What must I do? Gandalf: You must go, and go quickly. Frodo: But it cannot stay in the Shire! Gandalf: No. The Lord of the Rings: Frodo's departure Backįrodo's departure Frodo and Sam start for Bree Black Riders: kill a night watchman Frodo: (holds out the Ring to Gandalf) Take it, Gandalf, you must take it! Gandalf: You cannot offer me this Ring! Frodo: I am giving it to you! Gandalf: Don't tempt me! I dare not take this Ring, not even to keep it safe! Understand, I would use this Ring out of a desire to do good, but through me, it would wield a power too great and terrible to imagine.

Don t tempt me frodo