DVD Spotlight Frodo (Elijah Wood) continues his mission to Mount Doom against all odds in THE TWO TOWERS.


THE LORD OF THE RINGS THE TWO TOWERS By Rebecca & Sam Umland


Judging from the number of awards, hon- ors and encomia it has received, Peter Jackson’s THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy is widely admired as a remarkable and compelling achievement of fan- tastic cinema. While some aficionados applaud the fact that the films have revived interest in J.R.R. Tolkien’s works, others have expressed hesitations about Jackson’s many omissions and alterations of Tolkien’s source novel, pejoratively understood as “liberties.” Though enthusiasts may assume that Jackson’s adaptation is “definitive,” it is not; rather, his is what might be called a dark inter- pretation of the material. Tolkien’s narrative strat- egy in THE LORD OF THE RINGS is to alternate


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scenes of joy with scenes of terror. Overall, Peter Jackson’s THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING [re- viewed VW 99:34] is more terror than joy, although the additional material included in the “Special Extended Edition” of THE TWO TOWERS, which


THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS:


SPECIAL EXTENDED DVD EDITION


2002, New Line Home Entertainment DD-5.1/DTS/MA/16:9/LB/CC/ST/+ 235m 5s, $39.98, DVD-1

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