The Lord Of The Rings - The Two Towers (2002)

I have been meaning to do this review for a long time, I am gleeful to note that this is my 200th review thus far on this site. Hopefully, I shall do many more.

Here’s how long I procrastinated on this review, I had started this review on January 24th, then only picked it back up, on June 5th: 132 days later. I had decided that for my 200th review, I would stop procrastinating, sit down, stop fidgeting, and look out that window. Oh, right the review.

There’s a joke at the beginning with Sam, Frodo and a rope which I found quite funny.

I felt that LOTR TTT did a good job at finally introducing Gollum as a piteous, traumatised creature desperate for what Bilbo and Frodo are carrying to Mt. Doom while also showing Frodo as an empathetic man (hobbit) willing to let Gollum follow the pair.

I also liked the scene where Aragorn uses his forensics skills to deduce where the hobbits went was a really interesting scene, especially since I like nonlinear stories, so I found this a really creative transition to a scene set presumably in the present to one set in the past.

There was a not so minor reveal that I shall not spoil, that I fell should’ve been better hidden, it literally spoils it on the poster of the DVD case I have, thusly kinda ruining the reveal.

There was a really cool scary scene, where Frodo, Sam and Gollum are in a swamp and Frodo looks in and see a dead man’s ghost surround him.

Before I end this review, Aragorn son of Arathorn is probably my favourite character, he has a wisdom and calmness about him. And he’s so casually cool that even when he so much as wanders into a room he’s cool.

The ending fight was very cinematic, and I loved seeing it, and Sam’s monolauge at the end was really good to listen too. He really puts the Wise in Samwise Gangee. I also liked seeing his and Frodo’s relation deepening, much like the rest of the cast.

Well, that seems to be all I have to say on the matter, I hope to see the final one eventually, but as of now, I think I’m done for now. Before I forget, I finished this review on the 13th of June, meaning I took 140 days to write this review, and I forgot to publish it, so now I publish it on June 14th 2025 141 days after. Finally, I get to write this off of my To-Do list.