Lord of the Rings: Two Towers on cover of Time

[jerseydevil]

Here is an article that is appearing in this weeks Time Magazine - Lure of the Rings. It'll also have a cover of Frodo and everything.

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Two Towers is an unabashed action film," reports TIME's Jess Cagle, the first writer to see the second installment in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Those who appreciate the finer points of J.R.R. Tolkien's work may be taken aback by the new film's high-tech grandiosity, TIME reports. "It's impressive," says Two Towers star Viggo Mortensen, "but if you have that much emphasis on special effects, it's unavoidable that you'll lose some of the poetry and intimacy of the story."

This is one thing that people may find interesting -

"We were aware that we were making films for the hard-core Tolkien fan base as well as everyone else," says Jackson, who co-wrote the script with Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh. "In the beginning, it was a difficult tightrope to walk, but then we sort of abandoned thinking about it. If we make a good film, we'll be forgiven, whatever the crimes we commit to the book." Arwen, the beautiful elf played by Liv Tyler, doesn't appear in the book. But in the film, Jackson has love scenes between her and Aragorn—a romance based on an appendix that Tolkien later wrote about their doomed relationship.

The love scenes were added last summer. Though most of the trilogy was filmed during the initial shoot, which began in 1999, Jackson has done additional filming for both Fellowship and Two Towers.

I guess now - it will be a matter of how far he actually went with the "love" scenes.