All things considered, the handsome Aragorn would rather be back with his lady love, Arwen (Liv Tyler), but when duty calls, a man such as he has no choice. “Acted” initially by Andy Serkis and subsequently reworked into exaggerated humanoid form via a dexterous CGI makeover, Gollum is a startling creation that constitutes one of the film’s major talking points.Īll the same, this odd group doesn’t actually get very far in “The Two Towers,” as matters focus more on the heroic efforts of the warriors Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), Legolas (Orlando Bloom) and Gimli the Dwarf (John Rhys-Davies) to help King Theoden of Rohan (Bernard Hill) in his seemingly hopeless defense of Rohan against Saruman’s army of 10,000 specially bred fighting beasts. Naked save for a diaper-like loincloth, fidgety, skinny but large of hands, feet and skull, with strings of black hair and bulging, haunted blue eyes, Gollum looks like a preternatural Peter Lorre, a permanently scared and worried soul who’s compellingly revealed later on to be a hopeless schizophrenic, one twisted by his previous experience as a Ring bearer. The two Hobbits aren’t alone for long, however, as they apprehend the strange, vaguely threatening but ultimately pathetic creature named Gollum that’s been following them and now offers to guide them to Mordor.īut Gollum is an unsettling critter to have around. “It’s getting heavier,” laments Frodo (Elijah Wood) about the Ring to his genial companion Sam (Sean Astin) as they make their way across some imposing mountains en route to the dreaded Mordor, the only place the Ring can be destroyed so as to prevent the Dark Lord Sauron from establishing an empire of evil. Certainly there can be few films so replete with images of death and portents of doom as is “The Two Towers.” At virtually every step, the mostly separated main characters are threatened with extinction, and looming over all is the specter of the gathering army of the dark wizard Saruman, whose victory would eliminate the last remaining bastion of significant resistance to his quest for total dominance over Middle-earth.
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