
We watched Peter Jackson’s Two Towers (2002) … and we have some thoughts!
Our goal with this “review” is not to identify all the differences between the book and the film, which has been done plenty of times already by more diligent note-takers than ourselves. Rather, in this special episode we focus on some particular themes of the Two Towers book and film, including
- Sam’s purported simplicity (as characterized by Tolkien himself), and whether this is fair;
- Gríma and his super-creepy movie scene with Éowyn, and the interesting source of some of his poetic dialogue;
- the age-disparate celebrity couple Ara-wen and the might-have-been celebrity couple Éo-gorn;
- and Rich’s unshakable suspicion that Gandalf the Grey and Gandalf the White are two different people.
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