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LotR Two Towers Trailer Online
A few people have pointed out that Apple has put a trailer online for
The Two Towers, so if you have broadband and the ability to play video in
Apple's favorite format, you can check it out. I'm 0 for 2, so I guess
I'll wait. Besides, its only a half a year away ;)
Just go see it in the theater on Wednesday. It's being shown with Men in Black 2.
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Since you sound like a newbie, I'll explain it for you. I'll try to be as unbiased and non-opinionated as possible.
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Basically, the slashdot community (not as a whole, but large portions of it) dislike Apple and or Quicktime and or Sorenson for one of the following reasons:
1) Apple is a bad/evil company, and we don't like them.
2) We don't have Quicktime on Linux, and a few of us use linux while many of us talk about it.
3) We don't have the Sorenson codec in any other players, so the Quicktime player is required, but isn't on linux (see #2).
Therefore, it becomes cool to shun Quicktime, or to be proud of not using it.
Please don't make me say all that again.
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This is the same trailer that was reffered to by a story last week...however, it appears to be oh a higher quality...and in a variety of screen sizes...
also, i saw this after the story was posted last week...from theOneRing.net posted a frame by frame analysis of the trailer...it's pretty cool, and does a good job analyzing what's going on in the teaser trailer...contains major spoilers though, of course, that only matters if you've never read the book...
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Sorry, it's sorenson level v3 (SVQ3) so both xine and new (cvs) mplayer can play only the audio. Because of the furious work on this front, however, this may change. I hope so.
I told my friends not to watch the last trailer because of the spoiler.
There are several interpretations one can make as to which "Two Towers" Tolkien was talking about: Orthanc and Barad-Dûr, Minas Tirith (Anor) and Minas Morgul (Ithil)... I hadn't heard anyone say they were supposed to be the Argonath before, tho...
In any case, there is a very strong case (see item #3) that the one true interpretation, what Tolkien intended, is for the Two Towers to refer to Orthanc and Minas Morgul, because these are the goals of the split parties of the Fellowship in Books III and IV, respectively. This is in contrast to the above reply that state's Book IV's goal was Barad-Dûr; Frodo and Sam don't even really enter Mordor until Book V. Additionally, the note at the end of The Fellowship of the Ring in the 3-volume edition of LotR refers to Orthanc and Minas Morgul as "The Two Towers", and Tolkien's own illustration for The Two Towers was clearly of those 2 structures.
Atleast PetitionOnline.com posted a sensible response...
"Please Note: The Two Towers is the title of the JRR Tolkien book originally published in 1954, the second book of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The title was thus established some 47 years prior to the attacks on the World Trade Center towers, and there is no evidence to suggest that Peter Jackson meant anything by continuing the same title other than faithfulness to the beloved Tolkien classics. Furthermore, the two distant, opposing towers in the Tolkien classic have very little if anything in common with the two matching towers of the World Trade Center. -- PetitionOnline.com"
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