The 7 Most HORRIFYING Places of Middle-earth

The ring wraiths in the books are far scarier than the films. The way tolkien describes them as swaying, sniffing the ground, and crawling in search of frodo is so much more creepy. The passage where the hobbits are frozen in fear while one wraith calls out only to hear another one answer further off is genuinely unsettling.

I'm guessing your list is based on the 3rd age? If not, i would place Nan Dungartheb above all others. About the creatures you mention at the end: It's not known if they came from Utumno, which i feel like you implied. They might have existed before and might not have anything to do with Morgoth.

- Utumno
- Angband
- Helcaraxë
- Mordor
- Ered Gorgoroth (between Dorthonion and Doriath, where the spawn of Ungoliant lived)
- Avathar (South of Aman, where Ungoliant lived)

Calling Ungoliant a mere spider is like calling a nuclear weapon a firecracker.

Not mentioned, but I'm sure Carn Dûm should be brought up as well. The Witch King would likely have made it a place no one would want to go to even long after the fall of the Northern Kingdom.

Might be an onpupulair opinion, but i think the movies dont do Minas Morgul enough justice. Great video btw, Tolkien lore is wild

No high fells?

Subbed! 🔥

Looks ok to me 🤷🏼‍♂️but I’m from Rochdale

Melkor screamed when a spider touched him

This is an absolutely fitting video for Holloween

I want a college course on Tolkien and Middle Earth.

Can the first place become a movie?

I am kinda surprised that nobody mentions Tol-in-Gaurhoth. It was the first Fortress of Sauron in the First Age. It was originially called Minas Tirith and build by Finrod Felagund. But Sauron totally corupted it and bread werewolves in it.

I always pictured that the darkness between the stars in the sky was the web of Ungoliant

You can't remove my legacy from the world, no matter how hard you try, I will always be there.

The Dark Places shall be rebuilded.

All shall bow to me.

And I will reign supreme over Darkness and Moonlight. 🗿🔥

Just a little correction, Balin and the other dwarfs from the expedition to Moria were killed by orcs that occupied Moria after killing the dwarfs. The balrog actually never noticed balin and the other dwarfs at first, Moria was gigantic after all

Most horrifying is the orc factory. Unless you have arachnophobia

Tol-in-Guarhoth rates a mention. Twisting living men and Elves into Werewolves and unleashing them on the local populations in a genocide of attrition is pretty horrific.

I love all the great (human made) art!

Utumno should be #1.

The most terrifying? Its the ocean between middle earth and valaria

I never considered that Moria's lowest depths could be underground extensions of Utumno, really highlights just how terrible the damage that Morgoth inflicted on Middle Earth was, even after the War of Wrath.

Saurons humble abode in Beleriand was a pretty scary place, also wierd that Dol Guldur not mentioned in the video.

Ered Gorgoroth, or as we now call it, Australia.

Would love a video game that gives us the story of the first age.

Or maybe a TV show with Amazon’s budget, but more faithful to the books than Rings of Power.

Out of interest where did you find the picture/video for the land area sinking at thr end of the 1st age? Ive been looking for detailed maps like that for ages but have only ever found rough drawings from the tolkiens

Sauron's island full of werewolves. Tol-in-Gaurhoth is a terrible place to visit with all the dark magic and horrors of sauron in his prime of dark magic.

Of these the saddest is Minas Ithil, once Gondorian. All the others were evil from the beginning. This was a corruption.

Tol-in-Gaurhoth should have made this list, as the first fortress of Sauron teeming with foul spirits in the form of vampires and werewolves, its scarier than the barrow downs for my money

Just tell me about the giant spiders and I’d stay far away from those places.

The barrow-downs is a tutorial area next to the rest of these (or Dol Goldur / misty mountain goblin tunnels / Angmar / the paths of the dead). Stay on the road and don't stop for a snack and a nap, you'll be fine. But no, hobbits gotta hobbit.

I’d honestly rather simply walk into Mordor than go anywhere near Minas Morgul, or Angband.

the most horrifying place in middle earth is the "Rings of Power" TV show

The tunnels under Moria full of Nameless Things are pretty terrifying. Gandalf refusing to talk about them says a lot. (See also Beren - one of the only beings to survive Ered Gorgoroth, but never spoke of what he saw there).

The Rings of Power writing room make all these places look like the Shire.

Very cool

#1 Anywhere within hearing distance of ROP Galadrriel

They also were farmers.

Why did you not mention Saruman's butthole?

“…it was so impossibly loud that the balrogs in Melkor’s service residing in his fortress, thousands of miles away…”

My dude, the gates of Angband are at most 300 miles from Lammoth

Wow....
This was a fantastic and fascinating vid! I never was into the LOTR but this may just peak my curiosity ❤

Dol Goldur?

extended list: Carn Dûm, Gundabad.

Would be so cool if they made Lord of the rings and you get all the locations or so somewhat and you get all kinds of enemies spiders or trolls and dragons and all kinds of things and you get to create your own character completely your own way to choose and make your own weapons and all this open world free Rome I mean, even once you beat the game because still just go around and kill bunch of enemys whatever

If Tolkien was Australian, since spider are just their roomate, Ungoliant might shaped as titan Cassowary

Remember Melkors greatest fortress Utumno

What was the forest sauron was a vampire? Or wheres the isle of werewolves?

Those underwater shots are SO GOOD 👏🏼