The Two Towers has always been my least favorite of the movies, because I really hate Frodo and Sam's parts in it. All they're doing is going round and round and traveling towards Mordor, and Frodo's acting more and more strange, and they get attacked and he falls over (have you ever noticed HOW OFTEN he falls over?) and of course, Gollum's there to make everyone even more cheerful. I always just can't wait to get back to the action with Merry and Pippin and Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli. But the way the book tells the story is much more bearable than the way the movie tells it! For one, Frodo doesn't act like a haunted bipolar maniac (although, I understand that they have to show him getting more and more affected by the Ring in the movie), and he's a much more interesting and loveable character in the book. Also, the movie changed several things about the plot in the book that made me dislike it even more: adding the scene where Gollum makes it look like Sam ate all the lembas bread and Frodo sends Sam away (hate that), and making Faramir seem much more interested in keeping the Ring than he really was. He doesn't even actually bring Frodo and Sam to Osgiliath like they say in the movie. NOT that this whole review is supposed to be a commentary or comparison between the movie and the book--but I was just pleasantly surprised by how much more I enjoyed reading
The Two Towers than I have when watching it. I thought it was an interesting choice for Tolkien to completely separate Frodo and Sam's part and write it as the second book in the book, keeping both stories totally apart from each other. It makes it hard to see what was happening at the same time as each other, but it does make it easier to follow each individual storyline.
Side note: This image is actually the cover of the trilogy that we actually have! We found it at a used bookstore for a decent price and bought them because they looked so nice and beautiful (hardcover, perfect dust jackets, etc.). I'm really happy we have them.
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