One of the eeriest and most spine-chilling scenes in the entire Hobbit trilogy film adaptations is the scene in which Gandalf ventures into the tombs high up on the feels of Rhudaur, to investigate whether rumors of the Necromancer raising people from the dead are true. He is first tipped off to the possibility by Beorn, who informs the gray wizard that packs of orcs have been gathering there, and that an alliance has formed between the orcs of Moria and the Sorcerer of Dol-Guldor. Although this is alarming, Gandalf doesn’t seem too worried, until Beorn continues, telling him: “Not long past, word spread that the dead had been seen walking near the high fells of Rhudaur.”