Comparisons with Fellowship of The Ring on 12/20/2002 01:27 AM CST
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I'm having hard time really putting my finger on it, but I liked Fellowship of The Ring better. Perhaps it's because Fellowship had more character developement and when a character did something you had a good sense as to why it was done. Two Towers didn't have much character development. When Frodo felt pity for Gollum(aka Smeagul) I had a hard understanding why Frodo so readily felt pity for him. Eventually I would feel pity for Gollum but still did not understand Frodo's quickness to feel pity. None the less the only real character developement in this movie was of the King and Gollum. The King did not appear in the first movie, and Gollum was just a couple small side notes in the first movie, so perhaps that's why more charcter developemnt of Gollum was in this movie. There was so much action going on in this movie and stories going back and fourth that it just didn't feel to have the more steady flow of the first movie. All in all it's still a wonderful movie and the parts with Gollum and his dual-personality were my favorite. I too had a hard time remembering that Gollum was just an anmitated figure, and he appeared very real to me. I regret not ever having read the books after watching these movies.
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Re: Comparisons with Fellowship of The Ring on 12/20/2002 09:28 AM CST
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Well first you have to understand this is a continuation of the Fellowship. I believe I have heard quotes on how they had no intentions of candy coating The Two Towers with a "catch up and clue you in" begining for those who had not seen the first one. The intention is you watch all the movies and in order, not get a character development segment in the begiing of every movie over the same characters repeatedly. Gollum was built up for the first time because the second movie/book is when his role in the story is truely introduced, not back in the caverns where we first met him (ths is all excluding prelude book, The Hobbit, since this was not part of the movie trilogy).

As for Frodo and his quick pity on Gollum, there is no one on middle earth that has more understanding for the weight Gollum bears then perhaps Frodo (and possibly Bilbo). They both understand the weight that comes with being the ring bearer of such a manipulative and evil ring, and that is where the pity comes in.
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