The Two Towers features extraordinary adventures across the treacherous landscape of Middle-earth and reveals how the power of friendship, love, and courage can hold the Forces of Darkness at bay. Being the second movie in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Two Towers has a much more dramatic story-line than The Fellowship of the Ring. The Two Towers ends with a huge and fierce battle, which gives the movie the effect of opening a bottle of champagne. The intensity and excitement grows more and more and with the final battle the cork flies away, leaving the audience astonished and amazed.

The Two Towers is set in New Zealand but compared to The Fellowship of the Ring, it doesn’t feature that beautiful landscape. Many scenes take place on the territory of Mordor, where there isn’t much of what can be described as nature there. That is why, when Aragorn along with Legolas and Gimli searches for Merry and Pippin, they travel mostly through mountainous terrain or vast plains, covered with long grass.

The Two Towers introduces some new faces like the King of Rohan Theoden, his niece Eowyn, the elf Haldir and the mystic giant race of the Ents. They all play an important role in The Two Towers, at least Eowyn and Theoden. The King and his daughter are the rulers of Helm’s deep where the battle is fought, Haldir is also of importance of course, but he dies and doesn’t leave a sincerely big mark afterwards. The Ents are a fascinating race, of awfully kind and warm-hearted folk. They are later responsible for the surrender of Saruman with their attack on Isengard. Aragorn’s relationship with Eowyn and Gandalf’s battle for the King’s wealth is what takes up the real interest until the battle begins. Needless to say that the movie’s big star is still Gollum, it is he who leads Frodo and Sam towards the Black Gate, and his struggle between himself and his evil thoughts is something that makes you hold your breath and attentively follow the plot.

The music of The Two Towers has gotten somehow a bit more mystic and calm compared to The Fellowship of the Ring. Probably, the mystic tones are inspired by Gollum and the calm ones – by the relationship between Aragorn and Eowyn, otherwise there are few things to connect it with. The rest of the music, which is strong and mighty, is of course made for the battles and marches of the Uruk-hai.