Place 7: Watcher in the Water
Few things are more frightening than tentacled creatures swimming in a dark lake – at least for most people, ahem. In the case of the Watcher, fear is warranted. It resembles an octopus with very long tentacles and lives in a lake at the western gate of Moria.
There, the Fellowship encounters the Watcher, which promptly awakens and attacks. The sheer number of tentacles makes it difficult to keep track during the fight. Confronting the monster alone would be fatal. The Fellowship narrowly escapes the Watcher, but it will visit them regularly in their nightmares.
