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. The celebrated film won several of Hollywood's most coveted awards despite being shot almost entirely in New Zealand.2021 marks The Lord of the Rings movies' 20th anniversary, and we couldn't imagine exploring the trilogy in just one story. Tolkien's masterful novel brings the world of elves and orcs to life with astonishing battle sequences and powerful story arcs. An ensemble cast of characters based on J. Saruman also returns to advance Sauron's dominion over Middle-Earth by eliminating the reign of man. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers chronicles Frodo and Sam's continued journey to Mordor to destroy the Ring of Power. Nearly all of the film's production and editing were done in Jackson's native country of New Zealand. The trilogy was reportedly shot in over 150 locations, most of them on sight with moderate use of large sound stages. Peter Jackson was remarkably able to capture principal photography for his entire Lord of the Rings trilogy over that 438-day time period. Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers was filmed primarily in New Zealand between October 1999 and December 2000.
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