![]() ![]() It’s more than just a cool action sequence, it’s a depiction of how the various characters react when driven to their limit. The battle takes up nearly the entire last hour of the movie, and it’s as epic as it is emotional. While The Battle of Helm’s Deep is a key part of the books, the way in which Jackson and company brought the battle to screen cemented it as one of the most famous sequences in the entire story. Many of Gollum’s most notorious lines and moments come from The Two Towers, it is the only film in which Treebeard and the Ents play a key role, it solidifies the close relationship between Frodo and Sam and it concludes with what might be the most legendary battle sequence ever committed to screen. There are many sequences in the film that are some of the most famous of the entire trilogy. The Two Towers is, for good reason, considered by many people to be the best of the three Lord of the Rings films directed by Jackson. There are also a few changes made to Merry and Pippin’s time with Treebeard and the Ents in order to simplify the lore a bit and more fully incorporate that story as a key part of the film. As is the arrival of the Elves to assist the Rohirrim in the Battle of Helm’s Deep the book commits to the Rohirrim fighting the battle on their own against insurmountable odds. Beyond that, the attack of the Wargs upon the Rohirrim and the subplot surrounding Aragorn being believed dead is entirely new to the film. The film shows King Théoden of Rohan as literally possessed by Saruman, whereas the book depicts him as more depressed and hopeless as the result of Wormtongue’s constant negative tidings and words, which in turn come from Saruman. There are also a fair number of other additions to the Two Towers film. However, in the book, when Faramir discovers the Ring after capturing Frodo and Sam, he is much more willing to let them go, as he more readily understands the destructive effect of the Ring and does not want to tread the same path as his brother, Boromir. The film show’s Faramir capturing the Hobbits, claiming the Ring and taking them as far as Osgiliath. Since all of that material was shifted into the Return of the King film, the Hobbits’ encounter with Faramir was significantly expanded to become their central conflict in the Two Towers movie. The Two Towers book goes as far as to show the heroes entering Mordor, their encounter with the spider Shelob, Frodo’s seeming death as a result and Sam’s choice to take the Ring and finish the quest himself before realizing that his friend was actually alive. Much of their central conflict from the Two Towers book was moved into the Return of the King film, which then required a new conflict to be introduced into the Two Towers film. ![]() As for Frodo and Sam’s story, it begins at about the same point in the book and the film, but it ends at significantly different points. For the film, that portion of the story was removed and placed at the beginning of The Return of the King instead. Then the final chapter of the Aragorn/Legolas/Gimli section of The Two Towers, titled “Floatsam and Jetsam,” depicts Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli riding with the Rohirrim to Isengard to confront Saruman and reunite with Merry and Pippin. The first chapter of the book tells of the Uruk’s attack on the Fellowship and the death of Boromir, shown at the end of the Fellowship of the Ring film, as the end of that first book instead focuses on Frodo and Sam’s perspectives and their decision to leave. It then follows their adventure through to the end of the book, with no further check-ins with Aragorn and company.Īnother key aspect that changed is at the points The Two Towers begins and ends. ![]() Then, at the end of that story, after the Battle of Helm’s Deep and the March of the Ents upon Isengard, the book cuts back to Frodo and Sam shortly after their departure from their companions at the end of The Fellowship of the Ring. The entire first half of the Two Towers book is dedicated to the stories of Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Gandalf, Merry, and Pippin, with the latter two Hobbits receiving only two dedicated chapters in the midst of it. However, in the novel, Tolkien split the stories up quite literally down the middle of the book. ![]()
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