The Quintessential 'Lord of the Rings' Movie Shots
The Fellowship of the Ring
 Book Two, Chapter IV
 A Journey in the Dark
 Scene 1 - At the Gates of Moria,
The Watcher in the Water
 
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Scene 1:  At the Gates of Moria, The Watcher in the Water
               (Script - use the right mouse button to open in a separate window)
 
The Walls of Moria (#1)
  		The Walls of Moria

 Moria Gate stairs (Tolkien's sketch)
  		The Walls of Moria (#2)
 
Watcher at the Gate (concept art)
  		Moria Gate (concept art)
  		Moria Gate (concept art)
Moria Gate (movie concept art)
 
The Fellowship at the Gate:
 		The Fellowship at Moria Gate
 Pippin, Legolas, Merry,
Gimli, Gandalf, Frodo
Moria Gate (Tolkien's sketch from the book)
  		Moria Gate

 The Doors of Durin,
Lord of Moria.

Speak, Friend, and enter.


 		Moria Gate (Alan Lee - concept art)
 
Durin's Secret
  		Moria Gate (Casa Loma)
  		Speak Friend and Enter
 
Gandalf at Moria Gate
  		Gandalf tries to open the Gate
  		Gandalf at Moria Gate
 
The Fellowship outside Moria
  		The Doors of Moria (close-up)
  		Bill outside Moria
 
Gimli
  		Five looking up at the Gate
  		Boromir (and Gimli)
 
Gimli
  		Boromir, Legolas,
Merry, Gimli and Pippin watch


<- Gimli           Boromir ->

  		Boromir
 
The Moria Gates open
 Durin's Doors open
  		The Moria Gates open
Frodo and Gandalf outside the
  		Moria Gate as it starts to open
 
Frodo prepares to enter Moria
  

<- Frodo prepares to enter Moria and

Gandalf the Grey enters Moria ->
 		Gandalf enters Moria
Gandalf lights his staff
 <- Gandalf lights his staff and then

The Fellowship enters Moria ->


The Fellowship enters Moria
This is no mine...
  		It's a tomb!
  		...it's a tomb!
 
Legolas finding Orc arrow...
  		A dead Dwarf on the stairs
  		Legolas, Aragorn and Boromir in Moria
 
While the 'Big People' are looking for the danger inside the Mines,
Frodo is grabbed and dragged outside by one of the Watcher's tentacles...
 
Huge tentacle
  		Foul tentacle
  		The Watcher in the Water
 
Boromir and Aragorn...
  		Boromir and Aragorn are
escaping from the waving tentacles
of the 'Watcher in the Water'

  		...escaping from the tentacles...
 
...of the Watcher in the Water...
  		With the tentacles coming closer, the
Fellowship are scrambling to get inside
(Legolas is helping Pippin, on the left)

  		...while Legolas helps Pippin
 
The Doors of Durin...
  		The Doors of Durin are shut forever
  		...are shut forever
 
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