*TTT - The Dead Marshes*

[Kalimac]

I wasn't quite sure why they switched it from night to day, unless it's just that the dead faces wouldn't have been visible enough. The flames were a little disappointing; I was hoping very much to see the tricksy "little candles" in the mist, since the Dead Marshes are one of my favorite scenes (as my title would suggest ). Overall, though, the dead faces themselves and the effects when Frodo fell in were very, very creepy and everything that I'd hoped. And while I know that Frodo didn't fall in in TTT, it's interesting that in the drafts of TTT Tolkien had the Dead reaching out to grab Frodo and Sam, and also had them seeing visions of their own dead faces in there, so it wasn't a totally non-Tolkienesque touch. I rather liked it myself.