How to kill the Watcher in the Water

[obloquy]

Use A Bazooka !!!!!! M I Rite???

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

For a whole world of good guys who had just held off Sauron for some thousands of years, I doubt one little squid would be much of a problem.

[Noxomanus]

For one,it's unknown wether it really was a squid or Kraken,and if it was it must have been a very remarkable one. It lives in fresh water and seems to have a mind of it's own.

I suspect it's more right to say nothing beyond that it was a Monster,perhaps one of the Nameless Things Gandalf speaks off.

Sure,a bazooka could do a nice job I guess,but to stay within the reach of ME people..I think using one of Sarumans explosive devices to let rocks fall down from the mountainwall on the lake would be a possibility. Otherwise, making the lake empty would be a possible,and better,alternative.

My nature-loving mind however tells me I'd rather have the creature be left alone, special, and perhaps even unique,as it is.

[Tuor of Gondolin]

Hello. This is an interesting topic, which most readers of LOTR probably have thought about in passing. I actually thought PJ's version of the Watcher was acceptable. The concensus seems to be the Watcher was one creature (for example, the somewhat dated complete guide to middle-earth by Robert Foster, and it seems to me logical that the creature came from the sea. http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Sirannon , for general Watcher related observations.

It seems reasonable, since it's obviously a water creature, that at some time the Watcher came up the Gwathlo and the Glanduin, looked around and thought it had found a nice home that, suitably renovated (damming the stream) could provide comfort with a movable buffet feast nearby.

Maybe there were even nastier creatures in the seas that it was avoiding (hee, hee), isn't there some such allusion to dangers of the seas during the Council of Elrond about throwing the ring in there?
If the dam was breached perhaps it would take the hint and return to the sea?