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LotR Two Towers Trailer Online

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the provided-you-have-sorenson-and-bandwidth dept.

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 ;)

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  1. Hmm, not much to see in that preview... by JaredOfEuropa · · Score: 3, Interesting

    then again, we already knew that it will look similar to the 1st one, and most of us know the story already as well. Another thing, I get the distinct feeling that /. readers who do not have Quicktime, often advertise the fact in a way that suggests they are proud of it. Why is that?

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  2. How far we've come.... by Picass0 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Star Wars EP. III *Yawn*

    Lord of the Rings Part II !!!WHOHOOO!!!

    I definately sense a cultural shift among geeks. Or is it just that PLOT DOES MATTER!!!

  3. September 11th name change by SomethingOrOther · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Wouldn't suprise me if they did change the name to "The Who Towers"
    I recall reading a massive rant and online petition asking for the name to be changed 'cos they thought "The Two Towers" had some sort of terrorist connetation.

    How anyone can confise New York with the Shires in Middle Earth is beyond me.

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  4. Re:Go see it in the theater. by twenex · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And I heard there's plenty of spoilers in the book of the same name that they have already released. I guess you shouldn't read that either.

  5. Spoiler if you haven't read the novel... by zhensel · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This was a great trailer until they gave away Gandalf's return. I mean, quite a few people would know this given the wide readership of the books, but for ~half the audience that hasn't read them, isn't this a ridiculously massive spoiler?

  6. Re:I wonder by nagora · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Perhaps it's your reading comprehension that's at fault?

    Yes, that's right. I thought Frodo's character developed in the first book, that Gandalf and Sauman didn't get into a ridiculous punch-up, that the Balrog didn't rescue the fellowship from the orcs, that Frodo defied the Nazgul alone at the ford (thus proving that Gandalf's faith was justified) instead of being rescued, that Galadriel made it clear that Frodo was the doom of the elves but that they still would help him, that the Nazgul were dangerous, that no one had time to stop and play balance-the-5000 ton-pilar-of-rock while escaping from Moria, that the watcher in the lake deliberately locked them into Moria, that the Council of Elrond made some sense, that Aragon's sword was reforged from the shards of Narsil, that The Shire didn't have dancing mountains in it, that the travellers actually noticed the stone trolls in the woods, and that the damn story actually worked.

    Silly me, I must be damn near illiterate if I thought I saw all those things in the book when the great Peter "Just Get To The Next Fight Scene" Jackson didn't.

    TW

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