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re: Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers if it was made in 1983

Posted on 8/17/24 at 1:31 pm to
Posted by Jor Jor The Dinosaur
Chicago, IL
Member since Nov 2014
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Posted on 8/17/24 at 1:31 pm to
Stupid sexy Gandalf
Posted by Locoguan0
St. George, LA
Member since Nov 2017
7270 posts
Posted on 8/17/24 at 3:02 pm to
Legolas and Gimly are probably much more book accurate here. Elves were supposed to be powerful jacked warriors. Dwarves were no supposed to be clowns.
Posted by udtiger
Over your left shoulder
Member since Nov 2006
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Posted on 8/17/24 at 3:06 pm to
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The Two Towers is never explicitly spelled out.

Is it Isengard and Barad-dur?

Barad-dur and Ecthelion?

Ecthelion and Minus Morgul?

Ecthilion and Isengard?


Isengard and Minas Ithil (Morgul)
Posted by Jack Ruby
Member since Apr 2014
27322 posts
Posted on 8/17/24 at 10:32 pm to
quote:

The Two Towers is never explicitly spelled out.


They say it in the film. Isengaard and Barad-Dur.

The two centers of Sauron/Sarumon's power.
Posted by biglego
San Francisco
Member since Nov 2007
84761 posts
Posted on 8/18/24 at 12:43 am to
Going for the He-Man look
Posted by SouthEasternKaiju
SouthEast... you figure it out
Member since Aug 2021
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Posted on 8/18/24 at 6:10 am to
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They say it in the film. Isengaard and Barad-Dur.


Do they though? Remember where, exactly?

Tolkien was never specific on that matter though.
This post was edited on 8/18/24 at 6:37 am
Posted by Volvagia
Fort Worth
Member since Mar 2006
53478 posts
Posted on 8/18/24 at 7:50 am to
I would love to see the full prompt/input that goes into AI for these types of things.
Posted by Volvagia
Fort Worth
Member since Mar 2006
53478 posts
Posted on 8/18/24 at 8:01 am to
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Do they though? Remember where, exactly?


I feel like it is a line spoken by Saruman.

Something about the “alliance of the two towers.”
Posted by Volvagia
Fort Worth
Member since Mar 2006
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Posted on 8/18/24 at 8:03 am to
Posted by RTM4
Pflugerville
Member since Apr 2018
2369 posts
Posted on 8/18/24 at 9:03 am to
That should get a greenlight... looks amazing.

Would love to have a new Conan movie like that.
Posted by Scoob
Near Exxon
Member since Jun 2009
23555 posts
Posted on 8/18/24 at 12:35 pm to
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Tolkien was never specific on that matter though.
Yeah he was; in the books it refers to Orthanc and Minas Morgul. Those are the "two towers" relevant to that particular book. Orthanc for the Rohan storyline, Minas Morgul to Frodo, Sam and Gollum's story.

In Jackson's movie, they do have Saruman making that cringy line about the alliance between Isengard and Mordor, with the 2 towers being Orthanc and Barad Dur. But that was pure movie crap; in the book there's a couple lines specifically saying Orthanc is just a pale shadow of Barad Dur and not comparable at all.
And there WAS no 'alliance', because Saruman was trying to find the Ring for himself, and not checking in with Sauron anymore. So he was Sauron's shitlist already.

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