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New Trailer For The Two Towers
Drakkar writes "As most of you know, the new trailer for the Two Towers was online last night for AOL users, but the link was given on the official site, LordofTheRings.net. It's in real player format. A new trailer with higher quality will be up tonight, midnight ET.
This new piece of film is awesome. (the song at the end of the trailer isn't from the TTT soundtrack, it's from the movie Requiem for a Dream)" xTK-421x points to more links: "Now available is the new 3 minute trailer for Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Available here in MOV and here in RM. Reported first at Aint It Cool News."
the song is by clint mansell, who also did the music for pi.
For us LotR addicts, a frame by frame analysis is available at:
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http://www.theonering.net/movie/preview/ttt_09300
Additionally there is official frame by frame footage available at Lordoftherings.net
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I'm aware that most people who care have read the novel (I know I have)... but this trailer spoils almost every major plot point in the thing!
*SPOILER WARNING*
It's got the group meeting Gandalf again, Gandalf talking with the king, the city evacuating and going to war at helm's deep, it's got gollum attacking frodo and slam, then eventually leading them to mordor. and more.
*END SPOILER*
I mean, way to lone gunmen are dead the thing.
The whole of the Lord of the Rings trilogy (and the Hobbit and other books in the series) were written many years ago.
The Hobbit (or as it was also titled as "There and Back Again) was written in 1937
The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers were written in 1954 and Return of the King was in 1955.
So no, the name has nothing to do with 9/11. The two towers are referring to the two towers mentioned in the whole of the LotR trilogy.
All this information and more is available from www.tolkiensociety.org/tolkien/biblio_frame.html
-- Wiccan Army, 13th Airborne Division "We will not fly silently into the night"
In Tolkien's notes in the appendices and other writings, he explains that the events of the Lord of the Rings are not the only events going on in Middle Earth. Sauron sent attack forces against many strongholds in addition to Minas Tirith in Gondor. For example, to prevent the dwarves and elves of the Greenwood (also called Mirkwood) from coming to the aid of Gondor, he laid siege to the Lonely Mountain (the one from the Hobbit). Also, the elves of Rivendell and Lothlorien feared an assault and believed they could not successfully defend both locations so Elrond and company joined Galadriel in Lothlorien. Therefore my explanation for Elrond's appearance in TTT (the movie) is that Peter Jackson is showing the full scale of the war in Middle Earth and not just the events of LOTR (the book).
--Atlantix
Well a movie that is worth going out to the theatre to watch is a big event in itself. The MPAA keep blaming piracy and P2P for their lower revenues, but they fail to take into account that every good movie made generated a buttload of cash (spiderman, monsters inc, LOTR I, etc).
Theatres wouldn't be dying off slowly if they would have more QUALITY content making the trip worth to see and making good use of "the big screen". I used to go to the movies every week before, now it's about once per 3 months. The quality dropped, so had my support for the movie industry.
LOTR II will be a movie that not only I'll go see, but I'll do like I did for monsters inc, shreck and LOTR I, I'll organise an office group to go watch it altogether and have a beer before or after. At least I'm sure I won't have people bitching that I made them lose a night with that movie
--- Metamoderating abusive downgraders since my 300th post.
No, the track is called Lux Aeterna, composed by Clint Mansell who wrote the entire score for RFAD.
I highly doubt that "Return of the King" can be downloaded since it isn't finished as of yet.
Just as with the upcoming "The Two Towers", there is more work (largely effects and editing) to be completed on "Return of the King" before its late 2003 release.
Paul Oakenfold owes a debt then to Clint Mansell (former Pop Will Eat Itself frontman) and the Kronos Quartet, who originally composed and performed all of the themes used in Requiem for a Dream. Oakenfold used their music, they didn't use his.
In fact, there's a remix album for Requiem For A Dream's soundtrack coming out this October, which features a track by Oakenfold.
As an aside: The original promotional website for Requiem for a Dream is one of the best flash sites ever produced, and it's still up as of this writing.
Even Jesus hates listening to Creed.
Joke? Troll? Serious? Hard to tell sometimes.
Just to set the record straight, this was totally proven false a hundred times over, most notably by Ain't it Cool News (I would provide a direct link to the article, but their site is refusing connections right now). This was a result of some media idiot claiming it was on Kazaa or some such thing only because he or one of his aides saw it on a listing (i.e. didn't check to see if it was actually the movie). Besides, as others have said, watching a movie on a shitty monitor is a waste of time.
On the bright side, searching for 'two towers' on p2p brings up some substantially interesting pr0n.
Gollum is a hobbit formerly named Smeagol. Time for you to re-read the books!
Ents are in. Jackson was pleased with what the special effects boys churned up. However, ents will be decidedly absent from the trailers, much like the Balrog was from those for FOTR. Personally, I like the idea of saving the best for the big screen. Too many movies these days are summed up in their trailers.
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http://filmforce.ign.com/lotr/articles/367/3676
There's supposed to be a hi-res version coming out tonight (9/30) at midnight.
mplayer doesn't play the latest sorensen encoded stuff, but it does play some earlier sorensen stuff thru emulation now. I was able to play it with quicktime 5 via the crossover plugin just fine (although a bit choppy even on a 1.33 ghz athlon and gf2 gts).
Of course. "Before the crossing of the mountains the Hobbits ahd already become divided into three somewhat different breeds: Harfoots, Stoors, and Fallohides...The Stoors were broader, heaveir in build; their feet and hands were larger, and they preferred flat lands and riversides." (Prologue, Concerning Hobbits)
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Erm, sorry, you are totally wrong. Gandalf explains that they (Smeagol and his people) are related to the Stoors - one of the branches of the hobbit family tree. They lived in an area formerly inhabited by hobbits, before they migrated north and west into what was to become the Shire. There is only a 500 year difference between Smeagol's finding of the ring, and Bilbo's finding of the ring, after all. Not much time for the two groups to diverge, at all.
conclusive proof that Gollum/Smeagol == hobbit
http://www.apple.com/trailers/newline/the_two_towe rs/
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