There are also a fair number of other additions to the Two Towers film. However, in the book, when Faramir discovers the Ring after capturing Frodo and Sam, he is much more willing to let them go, as he more readily understands the destructive effect of the Ring and does not want to tread the same path as his brother, Boromir. The film show’s Faramir capturing the Hobbits, claiming the Ring and taking them as far as Osgiliath. Since all of that material was shifted into the Return of the King film, the Hobbits’ encounter with Faramir was significantly expanded to become their central conflict in the Two Towers movie. The Two Towers book goes as far as to show the heroes entering Mordor, their encounter with the spider Shelob, Frodo’s seeming death as a result and Sam’s choice to take the Ring and finish the quest himself before realizing that his friend was actually alive. Much of their central conflict from the Two Towers book was moved into the Return of the King film, which then required a new conflict to be introduced into the Two Towers film. As for Frodo and Sam’s story, it begins at about the same point in the book and the film, but it ends at significantly different points. For the film, that portion of the story was removed and placed at the beginning of The Return of the King instead. Then the final chapter of the Aragorn/Legolas/Gimli section of The Two Towers, titled “Floatsam and Jetsam,” depicts Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli riding with the Rohirrim to Isengard to confront Saruman and reunite with Merry and Pippin. The first chapter of the book tells of the Uruk’s attack on the Fellowship and the death of Boromir, shown at the end of the Fellowship of the Ring film, as the end of that first book instead focuses on Frodo and Sam’s perspectives and their decision to leave. It then follows their adventure through to the end of the book, with no further check-ins with Aragorn and company.Īnother key aspect that changed is at the points The Two Towers begins and ends. Then, at the end of that story, after the Battle of Helm’s Deep and the March of the Ents upon Isengard, the book cuts back to Frodo and Sam shortly after their departure from their companions at the end of The Fellowship of the Ring. The entire first half of the Two Towers book is dedicated to the stories of Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Gandalf, Merry, and Pippin, with the latter two Hobbits receiving only two dedicated chapters in the midst of it. However, in the novel, Tolkien split the stories up quite literally down the middle of the book.
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