Image: New Line CinemaĪs he was finishing The Fellowship of the Ring, Tolkien decided that the two towers of The Two Towers would be. I wish I could tell you it was any of these, but unfortunately, a month after that, Tolkien settled on none of those combos. Perhaps the events of the book were best represented by Orthanc and Barad-dûr, the strongholds of Saruman and Sauron respectively, as the major antagonistic forces of The Lord of the Rings? Or, perhaps it was Minas Tirith and Barad-dûr, representing the last refuge of the forces of good, and the fortress of the highest evil? Or, perhaps it was Orthanc - the location of the final conflict of Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Gandalf, Pippin, and Merry’s Two Towers adventures, where Gandalf strips Saruman of his wizardly powers - and the tower of Cirith Ungol - the location of the cliffhanger climax of Sam and Frodo’s Two Towers arc, where Frodo is captured alive by orcs and Sam is left to bear the One Ring to Mount Doom alone. Then, he wrote that he was attempting to decide on specific towers, but was waffling between three different options. According to his biographer Humphrey Carpenter, he initially wrote to his publisher Allen & Unwin that the towers the title referred to should be left ambiguous. At no point did these these two sections intersect.Įventually Tolkien settled on The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King, so that the titles of all three books could be included in the first printing of The Fellowship to entice the satisfied reader. Section IV leapt back in time a week to pick up with Frodo and Sam and then continued for over two weeks of time. Section III followed linearly from Section II, covering about a week of the adventures of Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Gandalf, Merry, and Pippin in Rohan. The second book in the trilogy, containing sections III and IV of the 6-section epic, proved to be a challenge. This meant that Tolkien had to come up with names for the three parts. But his publishers were wary of the high price of paper in post-war England and thought that readers would balk at the sight of a thousand-page tome, so they mandated that it be split into three parts with two sections each. Tolkien envisioned The Lord of the Rings as a single book told in six named sections, not a trilogy. But then, it was never supposed to have a name at all. When you really get down to it, The Two Towers just isn’t a very good name for the middle installment of The Lord of the Rings. And it came back to plague Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, and Fran Walsh when it came time for them to convert The Lord of the Rings into three movies. Tolkien waffled on for the majority of the time he was writing The Fellowship of the Ring. In another setting, perhaps, this would be an easy thing to figure out, but the geography of Middle-earth nearly bristles with spires of one kind or another, from Saruman’s tower at Isengard to the steeples of Minas Tirith, capital city of Gondor to Barad-dûr, the perch of the Eye of Sauron - and all of them play large roles in The Lord of the Rings.īut it’s a valid question, one that even J.R.R. So each Wednesday throughout the year, we'll go there and back again, examining how and why the films have endured as modern classics.
Be assured that if you fail to execute a final blow, that jerk will stab you from behind (the ore, that is).2021 marks The Lord of the Rings movies' 20th anniversary, and we couldn't imagine exploring the trilogy in just one story. An experience-point system for upgrading abilities is also crucial in combat, as witnessed when a dual-axe-wielding goblin outsmarted and outlived EGM's Reviews Editor Jon Dudlak not once but twice. If it's in the films, you can bet it's in the game.Įach character executes straight-from-the-movie melee and ranged attacks, alongside an unlockable arsenal of special moves requiring specific button combos. Or feel the ground rumble under your feet as the heavy steps of a cave troll precede a wave of goblins crashing into Balin's Tomb. To get a taste of what's in store, imagine yourself as Aragorn, desperately running to Legolas' side during the assault at Helm's Deep and valiantly swordfighting throngs of smelly ores pouring over on all sides.
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Forty percent of the game is taken from Fellowship and 60 percent from Towers, so you'll have your hands full playing as Aragorn, Gimli or Legolas.
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