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Like Jason I was a little disappointed with The Two Towers. I kept thinking “huh, that’s not like it was in the book, is it?”. Now that middle part of the book is probably the hardest to film, I know I never read it as thoroughly as the rest, with all the battles being fought. I was particularly disappointed with the scenes with Merry, Pippin and Treebeard. In the book it is weighty, with deep sense of “old” and “rooted”. The film Ents were just a little too comic to take seriously - the eyes didn’t work. Also, Gollum seems a little too sweet, too E.T., too George Lucas in an “oh this’ll tie in with some merchandising” way. Same with Legolas bloody skateboarding down the stairs. Come on! Wormtongue was straight out of Gormenghast, deliciously evil. All in all an entertaining three hours, but not as rousing as the first film.