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Information About Two Towers

Release Date Movie: December 5, 2002 Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Release Date DVD: August 26, 2003 NPAA Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 179 minutes User Rating: 8.8/10

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Story Behind Two Towers

The Fellowship has been broken. Boromir (Sean Bean) is dead, Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood) and Samwise Gamgee (Sean Astin) have gone to Mordor alone to destroy the One Ring, Merry (Dominic Monaghan) and Pippin (Billy Boyd) have been captured by the Uruk-hai, and Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), Legolas (Orlando Bloom), and Gimli (John Rhys-Davies) have made friends of the Rohan, a race of humans that are in the path of the upcoming war, led by its aging king, Théoden (Bernard Hill). The two towers between Mordor and Isengard, Barad-dúr and Orthanc, have united in their lust for destruction. The corrupt wizard Saruman (Christopher Lee), under the power of the Dark Lord Sauron, and his slimy assistant, Gríma Wormtongue (Brad Dourif), have created a grand Uruk-hai army bent on the destruction of Man and Middle-earth. The rebellion against Sauron is building up and will be led by Gandalf the White (Sir Ian McKellen), who was thought to be dead after the Balrog captured him. One of the Ring's original bearers, the creature Gollum (Andy Serkis), has tracked Frodo and Sam down in search of his 'precious', but is captured by the Hobbits and used as a way to lead them to Mt. Doom. The War of the Ring has now begun...
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Actors in Two Towers

Actor Charecter Name
Elijah Wood Frodo Baggins
Sean Astin Sam Gamgee
Orlando Bloom Legolas Greenleaf
Ian McKellen Gandalf
Viggo Mortensen Aragorn/ Strider
Liv Tyler Arwen


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Trivia in Two Towers

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) were filmed simultaneously
  • After the terrorist attacks on the USA of 11 September 2001, an Internet petition was started to persuade New Line to change the title because "The Two Towers" was offensive to victims of the attack on the World Trade Center and that it "was picked just to cash in on the tragedy". A few weeks later, the creators of the petition came forward and admitted it was a hoax, after thousands had seriously signed it in support. The hoax was taken so seriously that another site was created in order to mock the first one: the joking premise was to prevent the third movie to be called "The Return of the King" to respect the memory of Elvis Presley.
  • The Orc battle cries for the Helm's Deep battle sequence were provided by a stadium of 25,000 cricket fans, who screamed the war chants, spelled out on the Diamond Vision screen, with Jackson himself leading the crowd.
  • Gollum/Smeagol is a CGI character, but Peter Jackson wanted the character to be performer-oriented, so actor Andy Serkis, the voice of Gollum, played the character in a motion capture suit. Serkis also played scenes with Elijah Wood (Frodo) and Sean Astin (Sam) on set to give the actors a focal point. On those occasions when Serkis was actually in shot Gollum was composited over him in post production.
  • The set for the Helm's Deep battle scene was built on location in New Zealand over a period of seven months.
  • The Main Door of Helm's Deep was built so heavily and so well that the real battering ram that was built to knock down the gates failed to do so until the door was weakened. Someone had built the door a little bit too well and Peter Jackson can heard on the Extended Edition DVD commenting that if they had to defend a castle, he would want the WETA workshop guys to build the door.

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    Bloopers in Two Towers

    1. Several shots after Legolas, Gimli and Aragorn encounter Eomer and his men have been reversed (leaf-brooches are upside down, and Legolas' chest straps and quiver are on the wrong side).
    2. At times the character Gimli is as tall as Aragorn's shoulders. At other times, he is much shorter.
    3. When Gandalf the White first enters Theoden's hall, the position of his staff changes from being held perpendicular to the ground to being held parallel between shots.
    4. Aragorn's sword disappears from his hand shortly before he falls off his horse, but reappears in its scabbard later.
    5. The gash on Merry's face changes sides throughout the movie. Sometimes it is on his left brow, sometimes on the right.
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