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In Tolkien's '' The Lord Of The Rings '', the Watcher attacks the Fellowship as they were attempting to open the Doors Of Durin and enter Moria. There is very little known about the creature. Even Gandalf did not know what the Watcher was, or whether there were many of its kind. It grasped Frodo with a long tentacle, possibly with a fingered end, which was pale green and luminous. Many other tentacles emerged from the water after the one that grasped Frodo was driven away, but it is not totally clear whether these were all part of the same multi-armed beast, or a number of monsters acting together. In any case, the creature or creatures possessed great strength; after the escape of the Fellowship into Moria, the arms hurled the enormous stone doors shut and uprooted the trees that grew to either side, barring the doors. Later, when the Fellowship finds the journal documenting the doom of Balin's expedition to reclaim Moria, it relates: "... run the pool is up to the wall at Westgate. ''The Watcher in the Water'' took Óin. We cannot get out." This is the only name Tolkien ever gave to the creature. Gandalf himself as well as others noted that the Watcher had grabbed Frodo first out of all of them. In Peter Jackson 's film rendition of the Fellowship of the Ring, the Watcher is portrayed as one creature, similar to a perverse squid like monster with a gaping maw filled with sharp teeth. It was also black. David Day, in ''A Tolkien Bestiary'', calls the Watcher a Kraken and implies that there are some differences between the kraken of Norse legend and the Kraken of Tolkien's mythos. However, Tolkien never referred to the Watcher as a kraken or described the presence of krakens in Middle-earth. |
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