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As Frodo watched he saw something dark pass across the lighter space between two trees, and then halt.
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Back when Fellowship of the Ring was about to come out, and the trailers were running on TV and my mom brought me that promo magazine I mentioned in an earlier post... the thing that appealed to me the most but at the same time made me the most scared to watch it, were the images of the towering, black robed, faceless Black Riders. I thought they were very cool looking and mysterious, but also some of the most terrifying characters I had ever seen, like right out from a horror movie.
Needless to say that, if you know anything about me, you'd know that the Nazgûl became (and remain) one of my absolute favorite things in Lord of the Rings. I just love them. Can't get enough of them. A significant part of my identity, my outward appearance, how I present online, etc, is fashioned to some extent around them. I love their aesthetic, the hellish, otherwordly music that plays when they enter the scene, I love their presence, their role in the narrative, I love what they represent thematically in the story.
The Nazgûl are fear, terror and despair personified. They grow from being a disquieting menace in the Shire to complete overwhelming terror of war and death in the battlefields of Gondor, with their Captain growing so powerful so as to match the might of Gandalf the White. The Dark Lord never actually comes forth himself, so it is through his Nine Servants that he chiefly enforces his will and his malice. We come to know Sauron through the Nazgûl.
Now, I could have drawn the iconic 'Shortcut to Mushrooms' scene, which is when the hobbits first encounter one of the Nine. But 1) I didn't want to draw a whole ton of characters, and 2) this scene, where they spot one in the moonlight as they head to Bucklebury Ferry, is one of my absolute favorite shots in the movie.

Description
As Frodo watched he saw something dark pass across the lighter space between two trees, and then halt.
.
Back when Fellowship of the Ring was about to come out, and the trailers were running on TV and my mom brought me that promo magazine I mentioned in an earlier post... the thing that appealed to me the most but at the same time made me the most scared to watch it, were the images of the towering, black robed, faceless Black Riders. I thought they were very cool looking and mysterious, but also some of the most terrifying characters I had ever seen, like right out from a horror movie.
Needless to say that, if you know anything about me, you'd know that the Nazgûl became (and remain) one of my absolute favorite things in Lord of the Rings. I just love them. Can't get enough of them. A significant part of my identity, my outward appearance, how I present online, etc, is fashioned to some extent around them. I love their aesthetic, the hellish, otherwordly music that plays when they enter the scene, I love their presence, their role in the narrative, I love what they represent thematically in the story.
The Nazgûl are fear, terror and despair personified. They grow from being a disquieting menace in the Shire to complete overwhelming terror of war and death in the battlefields of Gondor, with their Captain growing so powerful so as to match the might of Gandalf the White. The Dark Lord never actually comes forth himself, so it is through his Nine Servants that he chiefly enforces his will and his malice. We come to know Sauron through the Nazgûl.
Now, I could have drawn the iconic 'Shortcut to Mushrooms' scene, which is when the hobbits first encounter one of the Nine. But 1) I didn't want to draw a whole ton of characters, and 2) this scene, where they spot one in the moonlight as they head to Bucklebury Ferry, is one of my absolute favorite shots in the movie.