Jackson employs a technique of escalating dread . The film opens in the golden, warm light of Hobbiton, where Ian Holm’s Bilbo Baggins feels frantic and obsessive. Then, we move to the dark, root-entangled woods of the Old Forest, the watery terror of the Barrow-downs (cut from the theatrical but restored in the extended edition), and finally, the claustrophobic horror of the Mines of Moria.
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