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Tour 2: The Places of Middle-Earth

The Flight to the Ford

The sun was now high, and it shone down through the half-stripped branches of the trees, and lit the clearing with bright patches of light. They halted suddenly on the edge, and peered through the tree-trunks, holding their breath. There stood the trolls: three large trolls. One was stooping, and the other two stood staring at him.
    Strider walked forward unconcernedly. "Get up, old stone!" he said, and broke his stick upon the stooping troll.
    Nothing happened. There was a gasp of astonishment from the hobbits, and then even Frodo laughed. "Well!" he said. "We are forgetting our family history! Thes must be the very three that were caught by Gandalf, quarrelling over the right way to cook thirteen dwarves and one hobbit." --FotR, "Flight to the Ford"
Aragorn and a stone troll, pic from USA Today via theonering.net

The Stone Trolls, by Alan Lee
image from Classic XF


Five Days After Weathertop,
by Ted Nasmith

Note that Frodo, in deep shadow, is beginning to physically look like one of the Ringwraiths.
The Trollshaws, by Robert Goldsmith

image from the second commercial, available on the official movie site

 In the books, of course, Glorfindel helps Frodo cross the Ford of Bruinen by loaning him his horse. In the movies Arwen carries Frodo across -- and actually calls up the floods of Bruinen herself.
Glorfindel, by Anke-Katrin
Eiszmann
At the same moment the black horses leaped down the hill in pursuit, and from the Riders came a terrible cry.... [T]o the dismay of Frodo and his friends out from the trees and rocks away on the left four other Riders came flying. --FotR, "Flight to the Ford"
image from a Decipher
trading card

image from a Decipher trading card
image from theonering.net

Full-size versions of these pictures are on display at Rolozo Tolkien, theonering.net, and the official movie site.