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On this month’s WLM, the gang is chatting about the fantastic second installment of one of the greatest film trilogies of all time, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers! In the extended edition, how hilarious are all the additional Christopher Lee puttering around his house scenes? Has Ian McKellen been any better than his transformation from Gandalf the Gray to Gandalf the White? And how great does Aragorn look for 87!?! PLUS: Gandalf insures the life of “Gandalf the Gray” for a surprisingly large amount!

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers stars Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom, Sean Astin, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Miranda Otto, Bernard Hill, Christopher Lee, John-Rhys Davies, Liv Tyler, Andy Serkis, Hugo Weaving, David Wenham, Sean Bean, John Noble, and Brad Dourif as Wormtongue; directed by Peter Jackson.

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Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.

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Andrew McCoy

Gollum's dad died putting out fires in the battle of the Two Towers

Zora McBride

Can't believe we got the final LOTR!! Thanks so much. Watching Rifftrax's rendition of the films followed by y'all's WLMs during a particularly lengthy bout of work thangs. Great times as ever. Here's hoping for HP5 for the final commentary of the year. :) Stay safe out there, don't forget to wear the blue!

Jean-Marie David

Best movie of the trilogy, looking forward to listening to it.

Graham Richardson

Yes! I've been waiting for this one! Hopefully there will be lots of Faramir vomiting when he sees the hobbits!

Zora McBride

YES!! I'm listening now and so happy you all are back!! Hell of a thing with which to start.

Frank Grimes

I've only ever seen these films once in theaters...but TT was definitely the best outta the trilogy for me.

MK

I can't remember the last time I watched this movie on its own. After Aragorn's speech at the end of Fellowship I'm so amped up that this gets played immediately. LET'S HUNT SOME ORC!

Eren Keskin

Looks like review's back on the menu, boys!

Shaq Attack

Nice. Nerd time: Orlando Bloom hopping on that horse looks so fluid because IT'S 100% REAL. Bloom broke a rib doing it, too.

WarOfTheBees

Jar Jar Binks crawled so Gollum could run

Slappy White

I’d watch a show about this Elven country club. It’s probably pretty exclusive. The only time you’ll see a dwarf there is if he’s carrying some elves clubs because you know Elrond isn’t allowing carts.

Marc Wilczynski

Nerd moment: The orc liquor that the Uruks force down Merry's throat is actually glycerin + grape juice, if the commentary is to be believed.

Tim Batson

Where's the Brooklyn Gollum PS at?

Andrew Bouvier

You slap some shitty tattoos on Gollum, shave his head, and he's ready to join SNL and date Kim Kardashian.

Alexander Farr

Classic ep. Rings of Power has a lot of potential but a mixed bag so far. It may be a better show taken as a whole so I might wait until more episodes drop to catch up. In the meantime, I'm adding the WLM on Return of the King to my most anticipated of 2023 and I'm going to listen to Fellowship now thank you.

Grimlockfly

The boys not seeming to understand that the nanny is about a bunch of rich business weirdos faxing each other like they’re texting is the joke.

Jacob

The Leafletslature is my favorite branch of the Govern-Ent (they wear powdered figs).

Happy Panda One

Take a thermometer to that burn, because it is sick.

Chris Dobson

Follow-up nerd moment: in the books, Merry and Pippin are permanently taller, to the point where when they're back in Hobbiton they are considered the tallest Hobbits in history. Some of the tragedy of the last few chapters is that Merry and Pippin are considered heroes, while Frodo has PTSD.

Deano Rezzz

Need moment: Mortensen broke a toe in the scene where Aragorn kicked the Uruk-hai helmet in anger after he thought that Merry and Pippin had been killed

TwoWeeksGuy

oh my God amazing. Uh mazing! Peter Jackson's editor used a J Cut!!!

Lynne Olson

I enjoy Dourif in all the weirdo roles he gets, but he was so good in dramatic roles like Cuckoo's Nest, Mississippi Burning, Wise Blood....I wish he would have gotten more of those. It seems like I remember a behind-the-scenes from Two Towers where someone commented that he was a weird guy though - so maybe all the weird guy roles are more fitting.

Catboyslim

Who puts this extended series of movies on at Xmas every year ?

Rhea

You're all so mean to my babygirl Samwise

Deitrich Tennin

I want to say that's TBS/TNT network but I'm not 100% sure

Cat Coleman

Baltimore has a really amazing aquarium! It's expensive but so worth it.

William Kiskowski

So you could build on the Merry and Pippen entdraught thing. So they do get larger, permanently. They go down in hobbit records books as the largest hobbits ever. So they could totally use this ent water as hobbit PEDs for whatever sports are popular in the shire. Yeah the East/West racism is pretty obvious. It was mellowed a little by the fact that big hero Aragorn was called "Lean, dark, tall," and imagined by many to be Persian or Indian in skin tone. Sorry I am behind. I intermittently get chunks of time to catch up on your content. My favorite podcast and I am always sniveling "well in the book..."