[Jessica Jade]

I agree that the ring itself was extremely frightening. It represents the power that corrupts us all, and that is scary, when you think about the results of it...the movie made the ring scary too, because it was always whispering mysteriously and evilly. The movie also made Bilbo quite dark and Galadriel menacing...based on the books, i'd say the Ringwraiths were downright chilling...and The Great Eye, of course!

I haven't gotten to the part about Shelob, but i don't understand why she'd be the scariest. She's just all BIg and swollen and all she wants to do is eat. She's considered evil, yes, because she's destructive, but i still don't see how that evil can be greater than the evil of Sauron, who wants to control all people and torture them. So far i think that the only thing scary abotu Shelob is her physical prowess. She just wants to eat all creatures, not torture them or control them...her motives are just too simple to really frighten me. Being physically and visually frightening is never as piercing as the scariness of pure, cunning malice, desire for power, deceit, betrayal, etc. You might even say Gollum is scarier than her because of what he did.

Yes, i happen to vaguely know what's going to happen next even though i'm only on the beginning of Two Towers...my sis says i just don't understand about the evilness of Shelob (why she's the MOST evil creature) but i just don't see how she can be the worst, well i guess i'll just have to get to that part in the book, but this was just what i think at this point.