LotR2-TTT-Seq01

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Listening to the Director's commentary this morning I learned that New Line wanted to start the second installment of LotR with a prologue - with Cate Blanchett voice over - but PJ and crew resisted. I can see his point as these three films are actually one movie, and to break every three hours or so for a summation is a bit silly. On the other hand, some newbies who hadn't read the books nor gleaned anything from all of the hullabaloo pre-TTT may have been a bit lost as the movie started.

This actually happened. My brother (a non-reader of LOTR)
took my 10-year-old sister-in-law's nephew ( a fan) to
see TTT without havng seen FOTR and confessed to a
good bit of confusion as to what was going on.