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# The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Theatrical and Extended Limited Edition)

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## Description

Product Description The Award-winning $1 billion dollar franchise is revisited with three new 2-disc limited editions. Each DVD features the theatrical and extended versions of the film and a new documentary. Filmmaker Costa Botes, who was personally selected by Peter Jackson, created three ground-breaking documentaries using rare behind-the-scenes footage. DVD Features:Documentaries:Never-before-seen behind-the-scenes documentary by Costa Botes, the filmmaker director Peter Jackson personally hired (106 minutes)Other:Part I - 107 minutes (Extended); 80 minutes (Theatrical) Part II - 129 minutes (Extended); 99 minutes (Theatrical) desertcart.com Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films gave "double-dipping"--releasing a DVD then releasing an improved version shortly afterward--a good name by offering both a better film and stupendous extras in the Extended Editions. This "triple-dip" 2006 Limited Edition falls far short of that standard but is still of interest to devoted and casual fans. What do you get? Both the theatrical and extended versions of The Two Towers are on one double-sided disc. The versions use seamless branching, meaning that the scenes that are common to both versions are stored on the disc only once. If you choose to watch the extended version, the disc "branches" out to the added or extended scenes. What does this mean to the viewer? Not much. The viewing experience is the same because the branching is imperceptible. But because both versions of the film don't have to be stored on the disc in their entirety (which would be almost seven hours total), both versions together fit on two sides of one disc. The downside is that whichever version you watch, you have to flip over the disc halfway through; the film breaks at the same spot it did on the Extended Edition, right after Faramir finds Frodo and Sam. Also lost are the meager features included on the theatrical edition, plus the four commentary tracks, two discs of bonus features, and DTS 6.1 ES sound from the four-disc Extended Edition. What's new? Costa Botes' 105-minute documentary reminds us just how rich The Two Towers is. It covers the mechanics of Treebeard, Gollum, Rohan, and other elements, and all that is before we get to the half-hour segment on Helm's Deep. What's interesting is how Peter Jackson and others appear in the documentary, but even more time is spent interviewing the extra actors and the lesser-known technicians who get into the nuts and bolts of how the film was made. Most of the cast members aren't interviewed at all, though Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd's clowning serves as a framing device. Some of the shots are quite funny, including the anachronistic glimpse of someone vacuuming the Great Hall of Rohan. It's entertaining, but because there's no structure (there are chapters, but no menu or chapter listing), it's not as convenient to watch, and go back to, as a documentary broken up into bite-size pieces. Oddly, the documentary is in widescreen, but not anamorphically enhanced for widescreen TVs. Note: New Line Home Entertainment couldn't release this material on its own a la the King Kong Production Diaries due to contractual restrictions.Bottom line: Do I need this edition? This Limited Edition combination of theatrical and extended versions plus new documentary seems likely to appeal to two camps. One is the devoted fan, who already owns both editions but has to have everything LOTR. The other is the casual fan who liked the movie in theaters, heard good things about the Extended Edition, and doesn't need a ton of bonus material. This edition is attractively priced for that buyer, and the packaging is quite handsome. In between is the devoted fan who already owns both editions but doesn't feel the need to watch more bonus material. When watching the whole movie, that fan will always choose the Extended Edition, but keeps the theatrical edition for (1) watching with guests, (2) Sean Astin's short film, or (3) the convenience of skimming through favorite scenes without having to change discs. That fan can safely skip this edition, as can home-theater fans who love DTS. --David Horiuchi

Review: Watch it every year - Best, love watching the whole series yearly!
Review: BEST FANTASY TRILOGY EVER CREATED IMHO - LOVE THIS MOVIE.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN  | B000GIXLO8 |
| Actors  | Bruce Allpress, Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Sean Astin, Viggo Mortensen |
| Aspect Ratio  | 2.35:1 |
| Best Sellers Rank | #26,533 in Movies & TV ( See Top 100 in Movies & TV ) #343 in Fantasy DVDs |
| Customer Reviews | 4.9 4.9 out of 5 stars (27,587) |
| Director  | Peter Jackson |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer  | No |
| Language  | English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), English (Dolby Digital 5.1 EX) |
| MPAA rating  | PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned) |
| Media Format  | Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Limited Edition, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen |
| Number of discs  | 2 |
| Product Dimensions  | 7.75 x 5.75 x 0.5 inches; 6.4 ounces |
| Run time  | 2 hours and 59 minutes |
| Studio  | New Line Home Video |
| Subtitles:  | English, Spanish |
| Writers  | Fran Walsh, J.R.R. Tolkien, Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair |

## Product Details

- **Format:** Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Limited Edition, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
- **Genre:** Documentary
- **Language:** English, French
- **Runtime:** 2 hours and 59 minutes

## Images

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Watch it every year
*by C***É on December 26, 2025*

Best, love watching the whole series yearly!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ BEST FANTASY TRILOGY EVER CREATED IMHO
*by B***W on December 24, 2025*

LOVE THIS MOVIE.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Adds most of the missing parts Tolkien nerds screamed about!
*by P***6 on January 30, 2015*

I'm probably the billionth person to review this, but I absolutely HATED this movie in the theater! The theatrical release absolutely BUTCHERED the novel, added scenes and events that never occurred, and had me griping for 20 minutes after the credits ended about everything that was left out of and wrong with the film. Fortunately the extended version of the film makes up for most of the problems I had with it, and almost everything I pointed out that was missing either appears in the extended version, or was deferred until "The Return of the King." This is still the weakest of the three movies by quite a bit, but it was the weakest of the books as well. The fact that Peter Jackson took artistic license and made the Ents refuse to go to war on their own, and instead had them manipulated into it by Pippin and Merry still ticks me off, as does the fact that the two Hobbits growing quite a bit after drinking the Entwater isn't emphasized enough. One of them became the tallest hobbit in history, and the other wasn't far behind, and that isn't shown when they get together with Sam and Frodo again. Throw in the battle with the warg riders that does NOT happen anywhere in the series, and Aragorn falling off a cliff so everyone thinks he's dead, which never happened either, and I was pretty steamed with the liberties Jackson's team took with the book, just because they thought it would make for good action and gripping drama. (Ok, Legolas standing on a rise and killing a warg with every shot one after the other was really cool, as was him swinging up in the saddle behind a rider when the bad guys were closing in on him.) But that's NOT in the book! Neither is a bunch of elves showing up to fight at Helm's Deep, and making them like robots instead of hundreds of brilliant fighters like Legolas did them a great disservice. (Of course we were subjected to the same ridiculous portrayal in the last of the Hobbit movies as well.) I could grouse about the differences between the book and the film forever, but I also have to concede that what Peter Jackson managed in his sweeping saga of "The Lord of the Rings" was everything I ever hoped for after I fell in love with the books at age eleven. The director's commentary version of this film explains why he and the really excellent artistic and writing teams he assembled did things the way they did. Once I understood that, I realized the quandaries they faced on what to include and when. Tolkien wrote the novels in distinct sections, but the order they were published in serial form and the order they were assembled into the novels didn't always match. So although the book ends with a cliffhanger, the film doesn't, That's a bit due to Peter Jackson's style - most of the movies end on a hopeful note, even though the first two show that there are great challenges ahead. This movie ended halfway through the last chapter of the book, unlike the other two films. The ending seems cheerful, but we know Gollum is back, and bad things are ahead for the unsuspecting duo of Frodo and Sam. I'm still stunned that so much of what was missing from the theatrical release appears here in the extended version, or in the extended version of "The Return of the King," which was absolutely brilliant and the ending was utterly faithful to the book. The song "Into the West" during the credits was great too. Unfortunately, the song during the credits of "The Two Towers" is forgettable, but it's also in competition with Enya's "Let it be" from "The Fellowship of the Ring," which was the best song of the three. This movie is best appreciated by plopping down on the sofa for a 9 hour marathon of the extended versions of the entire series, and in the capacity, it earns 5 stars. Alone by itself it would only get four, since the other two movies in the series blew me away, while this one had several aspects that annoyed me. The writers could have stayed faithful to the original script and still had a thrilling movie, although only us Tolkien nerds would know the difference...

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