SCENE: When in Doubt, Always Follow Your Nose

This diorama scene, set in Moria, requires that the fellowship pause, and in this space are some of the best lines of wisdom in the movies. Gandalf tells Frodo about the nature and importance of Pity and giving others a chance. This plays an important role with Gollum throughout the rest of the story. Gandalf talks about having to choose what we do with the time given, providing hope throughout, and then tells Merry to follow his nose. This scene is brief in the movie, but the wisdom shared in this moment shapes the rest of the story and it is a pivotal scene.

I tried to capture the stairs they climb leading up to this moment, the abandoned mine shafts and cavern around them, abandoned rails for mine cars, gollum's hiding spot, the three doors, and the area the fellowship is waiting while Gandalf and Frodo talk in a diorama style for displaying the full fellowship together during a pivotal scene.