Refreshed and recharged. Spent the holidays with family, entertaining the kids and (like the rest of the universe) seeing “The Two Towers.” I share the view of Patrick Neilsen Hayden: “Just as with the previous movie, any film of Tolkien that gets so much so right earns a lot of slack from me.”
What I wrote last year about “Fellowship,” I think, still holds for this second installment: “Anyone who watches ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’ with a deep knowledge of the text on which it’s based can see — moment by moment, scene by scene, image by image — that what’s best in Jackson’s film is directly drawn from what’s best in Tolkien’s prose.” With “The Two Towers,” this is overwhelmingly the case in the movie’s presentation of the savage poignance of Gollum.
That I have lived to see a good movie adaptation of “The Lord of the Rings” remains a great source of wonder, and a New Year’s gift.
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