[VanimaEdhel]

Oh, they have articles on both computer games and Middle Earth itself in my dad's Computer Game magazine...ComputerWorld or something like that...so I guess Middle Earth Mania is everywhere now...<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Viewers, beware. The Two Towers, the dazzling second installment of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, picks up exactly where the first one left off. No Star Wars-style scroll to bring you up to speed, no quick compilation of scenes from the first film, no opening Cate Blanchett narration—nothing. It begins in medias res, as though you had just stepped out for a few seconds to get more popcorn. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>That's good...I like that...<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> For him, The Two Towers is not a sequel to The Fellowship of the Ring; it's simply the three-hour second act of an epic nine-hour trilogy called Lord of the Rings.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>As well it should be, as the books were really one book originally...<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> But in the film, Jackson has love scenes between her and Aragorn—a romance based on an appendix that Tolkien later wrote about their doomed relationship. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>I'll take love to mean kissy-kissy...I hope...although we've established that's what they mean in the "a LOVE SCENE in THE TWO TOWERS???" thread...<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Last September Boyens and Walsh composed a monologue for Sam, the hopeful hobbit played by Sean Astin, in which he urges Frodo to stick with his mission. "There is good in the world, and it's worth fighting for," says Sam. The writers first thought it was too corny.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Yet is sounds so...Sam...<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> They met at a screening of Jackson's first movie, 1987's Bad Taste, a gross-out horror flick about human-eating space aliens. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Missed that...although, it was the year I was born...Hey! what's with PJ and horror films?<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> GANDALF FOR PRESIDENT buttons appeared on wide late-1960s lapels, and FRODO LIVES was scrawled on subway cars. Led Zeppelin gave Gollum a shout-out in Ramble On. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Poo...missed that time period...<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Like a sleepy Balrog in the depths of Moria, fantasy fever is stirring again.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Good analogy...I'll have to remember that one...<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> In 1997, voters in a BBC poll named The Lord of the Rings the greatest book of the 20th century. In 1999, Amazon.com customers chose it as the greatest book of the millennium. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><I>Well</I>!!!<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> But is all this fantasizing really good for us? Should we worry about all these strapping men poking each other with sharpened phallic symbols? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Why not? They are, after all, strapping young men...<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Where are the women? ... the Fellowship is still as much a boys' club as Augusta National. And whiter too. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Are they reading into it a bit too much? Maybe they should just enjoy it...and the rest of it is reading into it a bit too much as well...<P>Hmmm...on the "Who's Who", they only have about 8 pics and only 4 of them are in the Fellowship (Sam, Frodo, Gandalf, and Aragorn)...and the sum up "The Scenes" in 6 images of Eowyn, Arwen, Rohan soldiers, Saruman and Wormtongue, Sam, and some more Rohan people (making their way to Helm's Deep). They simplified the story a bit in the articles and all-together, didn't they? Oh well...made for some interesting reading...