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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Index The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is a 2002 epic high fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson and based on the second volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings. [1]

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Abbey Road

Abbey Road is the eleventh studio album by English rock band the Beatles, released on 26 September 1969 by Apple Records.

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Abbey Road Studios

Abbey Road Studios (formerly known as EMI Recording Studios) is a recording studio at 3 Abbey Road, St John's Wood, City of Westminster, London, England.

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Academy Award for Best Film Editing

The Academy Award for Best Film Editing is one of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards presented annually since the awards debuted in 1929, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Production Design

The Academy Award for Best Production Design recognizes achievement for art direction in film.

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Academy Award for Best Sound Editing

The Academy Award for Best Sound Editing is an Academy Award granted yearly to a film exhibiting the finest or most aesthetic sound design or sound editing.

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Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing

The Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing is an Academy Award that recognizes the finest or most euphonic sound mixing or recording and is generally awarded to the production sound mixers and re-recording mixers of the winning film.

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Academy Award for Best Visual Effects

The Academy Award for Best Visual Effects is an Academy Award given for the best achievement in visual effects.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Adventure film

Adventure films are a genre of film that typically use their action scenes to display and explore exotic locations in an energetic way.

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AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes

Part of The American Film Institute (AFI 100 Years... series), AFI's 100 Years...

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Alan Lee (illustrator)

Alan Lee (born 20 August 1947) is an English book illustrator and movie conceptual designer.

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American Film Institute

The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.

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Andrew Lesnie

Andrew Lesnie ACS ASC (1 January 1956 – 27 April 2015) was an Australian cinematographer.

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Andy Serkis

Andrew Clement Serkis (born 20 April 1964) is an English actor and film director.

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Aragorn

Aragorn II, son of Arathorn is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium.

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Arwen

Arwen Undómiel is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium.

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Éomer

Éomer is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium.

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Éowyn

Éowyn is a fictional character in Tolkien's legendarium who appears in his most famous work, The Lord of the Rings.

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Balrog

Balrogs are fictional creatures who appear in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium.

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Bank holiday

A bank holiday is a public holiday in the United Kingdom, some Commonwealth countries, Hong Kong and the Republic of Ireland.

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Barad-dûr

Barad-dûr, the “Dark Tower,” is a fictional place in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings and is described in The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, and other works.

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Bark (botany)

Bark is the outermost layers of stems and roots of woody plants.

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Barrie M. Osborne

Barrie Mitchell Osborne (born February 7, 1944) is a film producer, production manager and director.

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Battle of the Hornburg

The Battle of the Hornburg is a fictional battle in J. R. R. Tolkien's epic The Lord of the Rings.

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Bernard Hill

Bernard Hill (born 17 December 1944) is an English film, stage and television actor.

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Billy Boyd (actor)

Billy Boyd (born 28 August 1968) is a Scottish actor and musician.

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Blu-ray

Blu-ray or Blu-ray Disc (BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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Boromir

Boromir is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium.

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Box Office Mojo

Founded in 1999, Box Office Mojo tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way, and publishes the data on its website.

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Brad Dourif

Bradford Claude Dourif (born March 18, 1950) is an American character, stage and film actor, known for playing Billy Bibbit in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (which won him a Golden Globe Award and BAFTA Award, as well as a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), Chucky in the ''Chucky'' franchise, Gríma Wormtongue in The Lord of the Rings, Deputy Clinton Pell in Mississippi Burning, Piter De Vries in Dune and Doc Cochran in Deadwood (for which he earned an Emmy Award nomination).

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British Board of Film Classification

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), previously the British Board of Film Censors, is a non-governmental organization, founded by the film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public Information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom.

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and charitable organisation which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom.

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Bruce Hopkins (actor)

Raymond Bruce Hopkinshttp://www.filmreference.com/film/74/Bruce-Hopkins.html (born 25 November 1955) is an actor from New Zealand, most famous for his portrayal of Gamling in ''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy by Peter Jackson and for playing the voice of evil alien Choobo on Power Rangers Ninja Storm.

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Cameo appearance

A cameo role or cameo appearance (often shortened to just cameo) is a brief appearance or voice part of a known person in a work of the performing arts, typically unnamed or appearing as themselves.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Cate Blanchett

Catherine Elise Blanchett, (born 14 May 1969) is an Australian actress and theatre director.

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Christopher Boyes

Christopher Boyes is an American sound engineer.

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Christopher Lee

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English character actor, singer, and author.

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Chroma key

Chroma key compositing, or chroma keying, is a visual effects/post-production technique for compositing (layering) two images or video streams together based on color hues (chroma range).

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CinemaScore

CinemaScore is a market research firm based in Las Vegas.

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Craig Parker

Craig Parker (born 12 November 1970) is a New Zealand actor, known for his roles as Haldir in the films The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and The Two Towers (2002), Darken Rahl in the television series Legend of the Seeker, Stéphane Narcisse in the CW television series Reign, and Gaius Claudius Glaber in the television series Spartacus.

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Dan Hennah

Dan Hennah is a production designer from New Zealand who worked on The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films.

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Dandruff

Dandruff is a skin condition that mainly affects the scalp.

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Daniel Falconer

Daniel Falconer is a weapon and armor designer for films and known best for his work with Weta on ''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

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David Wenham

David Wenham (born 21 September 1965) is an Australian actor who has appeared in movies, television series and theatre productions.

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Déagol

Déagol is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium.

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Dead Marshes

The Dead Marshes is a fictional place from J. R. R. Tolkien's universe, Middle-earth.

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Denethor

Denethor II, son of Ecthelion II, is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Return of the King, which is the third and final part of his novel The Lord of the Rings.

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Dissociative identity disorder

Dissociative identity disorder (DID), also known as multiple personality disorder, is a mental disorder characterized by at least two distinct and relatively enduring personality states.

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Dol Guldur

Dol Guldur (Sindarin: "Hill of Sorcery") was Sauron's stronghold in Mirkwood in the fictional world of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.

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Dominic Monaghan

Dominic Bernard Patrick Luke Monaghan (born 8 December 1976) is an English actor.

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DVD

DVD (an abbreviation of "digital video disc" or "digital versatile disc") is a digital optical disc storage format invented and developed by Philips and Sony in 1995.

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Dwarf (Middle-earth)

In the fantasy of J. R. R. Tolkien, the Dwarves are a race inhabiting Middle-earth, the central continent of Earth in an imagined mythological past.

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Edda

"Edda" (Old Norse Edda, plural Eddur) is an Old Norse term that has been attributed by modern scholars to the collective of two Medieval Icelandic literary works: what is now known as the Prose Edda and an older collection of poems without an original title now known as the Poetic Edda.

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Elf (Middle-earth)

In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, Elves are one of the races that inhabit a fictional Earth, often called Middle-earth, and set in the remote past.

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Elijah Wood

Elijah Jordan Wood (born January 28, 1981) is an American actor, voice actor, DJ, and producer.

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Elrond

Elrond Half-elven is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium.

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Ensemble cast

An ensemble cast is made up of cast members in which multiple principal actors and performers are assigned roughly equal amounts of importance and screen time in a dramatic production.

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Ent

Ents are a race of beings in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world Middle-earth who closely resemble trees.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American magazine, published by Meredith Corporation, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture.

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Epic film

Epic films are a style of filmmaking with large scale, sweeping scope, and spectacle.

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Erkenbrand

Erkenbrand is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium.

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European Audiovisual Observatory

The European Audiovisual Observatory was set up by the Council of Europe as a Partial Agreement. Its legal basis is Resolution (92) 70 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, 15 December 1992. The idea for the Observatory originated at the European Audiovisual Assizes in 1989, and was actively pursued by Audiovisual Eureka during the years 1989 to 1992. The observatory provides statistical and analytical information on the fields of: film, television, video/DVD, new audiovisual media services and public policy on film and television.

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Fangorn

Fangorn (Sindarin:; "Beardtree") in J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium, was a forest located in the fictional world of Middle-earth and was the home of the tree shepherds, the Ents.

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Faramir

In J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, Faramir is a fictional character appearing in The Lord of the Rings.

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Film score

A film score (also sometimes called background score, background music, film soundtrack, film music, or incidental music) is original music written specifically to accompany a film.

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Forced perspective

Forced perspective is a technique which employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is.

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Fran Walsh

Frances Rosemary "Fran" Walsh, Lady Jackson, (born 10 January 1959), is a New Zealand screenwriter, film producer and lyricist.

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Frodo Baggins

Frodo Baggins is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, and the main protagonist of The Lord of the Rings.

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Galadriel

Galadriel is a fictional character created by J.R.R. Tolkien, appearing in his Middle-earth legendarium.

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Gamling

In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, Gamling is a Man of Rohan.

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Gandalf

Gandalf is a fictional character and one of the protagonists in J. R. R. Tolkien's novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

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Gimli (Middle-earth)

Gimli is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, featured in The Lord of the Rings.

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Gollum

Gollum is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium.

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Gondor

Gondor is a fictional kingdom in J. R. R. Tolkien's writings, described as the greatest realm of Men in the west of Middle-earth by the end of the Third Age.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

The Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media is an honor presented to a composer or composers for an original score created for a film, TV show or series, video games or other visual media at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.

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Gríma Wormtongue

Gríma, called (the) Wormtongue, is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

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Hammond Peek

Hammond Peek is a New Zealand sound engineer.

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Hardanger fiddle

A Hardanger fiddle (or in hardingfele) is a traditional stringed instrument used originally to play the music of Norway.

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Háma (Middle-earth)

Háma is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium.

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Helm's Deep

In J. R. R. Tolkien's high fantasy writings, Helm's Deep was a large valley in the north-western White Mountains of Middle-earth.

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High fantasy

High fantasy or epic fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy, defined either by the epic nature of its setting or by the epic stature of its characters, themes, or plot.

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Hobbit

Hobbits are a fictional, diminutive, humanoid race who inhabit the lands of Middle-earth in J. R. R. Tolkien’s fiction.

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Howard Shore

Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer who is notable for his film scores.

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Hugo Award

The Hugo Awards are a set of literary awards given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year.

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Hugo Weaving

Hugo Wallace Weaving (born 4 April 1960) is an English-Australian film and stage actor.

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Ian McKellen

Sir Ian Murray McKellen (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor.

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Iceland

Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic, with a population of and an area of, making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe.

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Isengard

In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, Isengard is a large fortress in the fictional universe of Middle-earth.

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J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, (Tolkien pronounced his surname, see his phonetic transcription published on the illustration in The Return of the Shadow: The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part One. Christopher Tolkien. London: Unwin Hyman, 1988. (The History of Middle-earth; 6). In General American the surname is also pronounced. This pronunciation no doubt arose by analogy with such words as toll and polka, or because speakers of General American realise as, while often hearing British as; thus or General American become the closest possible approximation to the Received Pronunciation for many American speakers. Wells, John. 1990. Longman pronunciation dictionary. Harlow: Longman, 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.

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Jabez Olssen

Jabez Olssen (born 5 August 1975) is a New Zealand film and television editor who has worked extensively with director Peter Jackson.

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John Bach

John Bach (born 5 June 1946) is a New Zealand actor who has acted on stage, television and film over a period of more than four decades.

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John Howe (illustrator)

John Howe (born August 21, 1957) is a Canadian book illustrator, living in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

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John Leigh (actor)

John Leigh (born 1965) is a New Zealand actor.

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John Noble

John Noble (born 20 August 1948) is an Australian actor and theatre director of more than 80 plays.

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John Rhys-Davies

John Rhys-Davies (born 5 May 1944) is a Welsh actor and voice actor known for his portrayal of Gimli in ''The Lord of the Rings'' trilogy and the charismatic excavator Sallah in the ''Indiana Jones'' films.

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Karl Urban

Karl-Heinz Urban (born 7 June 1972) is a New Zealand actor.

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Legolas

Legolas (pronounced) is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium.

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List of highest-grossing films

Films generate income from several revenue streams, including theatrical exhibition, home video, television broadcast rights and merchandising.

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List of kings of Rohan

This is a list of kings of Rohan from the fictional universe of Middle-earth by J. R. R. Tolkien.

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List of Middle-earth Elves

In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, Elves are one of the races that inhabit a fictional Earth, often called Middle-earth, and set in the remote past.

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List of original characters in The Lord of the Rings film series

This is a list of original characters of note found in Peter Jackson's film adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

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Liv Tyler

Liv Rundgren Tyler (born Liv Rundgren; July 1, 1977) is an American actress and former model.

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London Philharmonic Orchestra

The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) is one of five permanent symphony orchestras based in London.

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London Voices

London Voices is a London-based choral ensemble founded by Terry Edwards in 1973.

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Lothlórien

In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, Lothlórien or Lórien is the fairest realm of the Elves remaining in Middle-earth during the Third Age.

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Māori language

Māori, also known as te reo ("the language"), is an Eastern Polynesian language spoken by the Māori people, the indigenous population of New Zealand.

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Meriadoc Brandybuck

Meriadoc Brandybuck, usually referred to as simply Merry, is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, featured throughout his most famous work, The Lord of the Rings.

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Metacritic

Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: music albums, video games, films, TV shows, and formerly, books.

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Michael Hedges (sound engineer)

Michael Hedges is a sound engineer from Wellington, New Zealand.

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Michael J. Horton

Michael J. Horton is a film editor who works primarily in New Zealand.

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Michael Semanick

Michael Semanick (born 1963) is an American sound engineer, credited as a sound re-recording mixer.

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Minas Morgul

Minas Morgul (. Sindarin: Tower of Black Sorcery), also known by its earlier name of Minas Ithil (Sindarin: Tower of the Rising Moon), or in its full name Minas Ithil in the Morgul Vale, is a fictional fortified city in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.

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Minor places in Middle-earth

The stories of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium contain references to numerous places.

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Miramax

Miramax (also known as Miramax Films) is an American entertainment company known for producing and distributing films and television shows.

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Miranda Otto

Miranda Otto (born 16 December 1967) is an Australian actress.

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Mirkwood

Mirkwood is a name used for two distinct fictional forests on the continent of Middle-earth in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium.

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Mordor

In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth, Mordor (pronounced; from Sindarin Black Land and Quenya Land of Shadow) was the region occupied and controlled by Sauron, in the southeast of northwestern Middle-earth to the East of Anduin, the great river.

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Moria (Middle-earth)

In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, Moria was the name given at the beginning of the late Third Age to an enormous and by then very ancient underground complex in north-western Middle-earth, comprising a vast network of tunnels, chambers, mines and huge halls or mansions, that ran under and ultimately through the Misty Mountains.

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Motion capture

Motion capture (Mo-cap for short) is the process of recording the movement of objects or people.

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Nazgûl

The Nazgûl (from Black Speech nazg, "ring", and gûl, "wraith, spirit", possibly related to gul, "sorcery" or a wordplay on "ghoul"), also called Ringwraiths, Ring-wraiths, Black Riders, Dark Riders, the Nine Riders, or simply the Nine, are fictional characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium.

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New Line Cinema

New Line Cinema is an American film production studio a part of Warner Bros. Entertainment.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Ngila Dickson

Ngila Dickson, ONZM (born 1958) is a costume designer from New Zealand.

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Old English

Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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One Ring

The One Ring is an artefact that appears as the central plot element in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (1954–55).

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Orlando Bloom

Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom (born 13 January 1977) is an English actor.

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Peregrin Took

Peregrin Took, more commonly known simply as Pippin, is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings.

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Peter Jackson

Sir Peter Robert Jackson (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand film director, screenwriter and film producer.

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Philippa Boyens

Philippa Boyens, MNZM, is a New Zealand screenwriter and producer who co-wrote the screenplay for Peter Jackson's films ''The Lord of the Rings'' series, King Kong, The Lovely Bones, and the three-part film The Hobbit, all with Jackson and Fran Walsh.

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Polyurethane

Polyurethane (PUR and PU) is a polymer composed of organic units joined by carbamate (urethane) links.

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Rangers of Ithilien

In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the Rangers of Ithilien, also known as the Rangers of the South and Rangers of Gondor, were an elite group of the Southern Dúnedain warriors who scouted in and guarded the land of Ithilien.

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Rímur

In Icelandic literature, a ríma (literally "a rhyme", pl. rímur) is an epic poem written in any of the so-called rímnahættir ("rímur meters").

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Rendering (computer graphics)

Rendering or image synthesis is the automatic process of generating a photorealistic or non-photorealistic image from a 2D or 3D model (or models in what collectively could be called a scene file) by means of computer programs.

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Repeating crossbow

The repeating crossbow, also known as the magazine crossbow, or the Zhuge crossbow (previously romanized Chu-ko-nu) due to its association with the Three Kingdoms-era strategist Zhuge Liang (181–234 AD), is a Chinese crossbow that appeared in ancient times.

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Rivendell

Rivendell is an Elven realm in Middle-earth, a fictional world created by J. R. R. Tolkien.

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Rohan (Middle-earth)

Rohan (from Sindarin Rochand) is a kingdom in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy setting of Middle-earth.

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Rohirric

In the fictional world of Middle-earth by J. R. R. Tolkien, Rohirric (also Rohirian and Rohanese, see below) is the language of the Rohirrim of Rohan.

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Rotoscoping

Rotoscoping is an animation technique that animators use to trace over motion picture footage, frame by frame, to produce realistic action.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Samwise Gamgee

Samwise "Sam" Gamgee (later known as Samwise Gardner)Appendix C to The Lord of the Rings is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium.

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Saruman

Saruman the White is a fictional character and a major antagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings.

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Saul Zaentz

Saul Zaentz (February 28, 1921January 3, 2014) was an American film producer and record company executive.

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Sauron

Sauron is the title character and main antagonist of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

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Sean Astin

Sean Patrick Astin (né Duke; February 25, 1971) is an American actor, voice actor, director and producer.

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Sean Bean

Shaun Mark Bean (born 17 April 1959), known professionally as Sean Bean, is an English actor.

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Sequentia (music group)

Sequentia is an early music ensemble, founded in 1977 by Benjamin Bagby and Barbara Thornton (died 8 November 1998).

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Shelob

Shelob is a fictional giant spider from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium.

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Sony BMG

Sony BMG Music Entertainment was a multinational record label, which was a 50–50 joint venture between the Sony Corporation of America and Bertelsmann Music Group.

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Spirit possession

Spirit possession is a term for the belief that animas, aliens, demons, extraterrestrials, gods, or spirits can take control of a human body.

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Stephen Sinclair

Stephen Sinclair is a New Zealand playwright, screenwriter and novelist.

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Stewards of Gondor

According to J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium of Middle-earth, the Stewards of Gondor – also styled the Lords of Minas Tirith – were lords of the fictional kingdom of Gondor, who resided in Minas Tirith, the capital city.

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Telepathy

Telepathy (from the Greek τῆλε, tele meaning "distant" and πάθος, pathos or -patheia meaning "feeling, perception, passion, affliction, experience") is the purported transmission of information from one person to another without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction.

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Théoden

Théoden is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel, The Lord of the Rings.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Blitz

The Blitz was a German bombing offensive against Britain in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War.

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The Fellowship of the Ring

The Fellowship of the Ring is the first of three volumes of the epic novel The Lord of the Rings by the English author J. R. R. Tolkien.

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The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien

The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien is a selection of J. R. R. Tolkien's letters published in 1981, edited by Tolkien's biographer Humphrey Carpenter assisted by Christopher Tolkien.

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The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien.

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The Lord of the Rings (film series)

The Lord of the Rings is a film series consisting of three high fantasy adventure films directed by Peter Jackson.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is a 2001 epic adventure fantasy film directed by Peter Jackson based on the first volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (1954–1955).

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is a 2003 epic high fantasy adventure film produced, written, and directed by Peter Jackson based on the second and third volumes of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

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The Return of the King

The Return of the King is the third and final volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, following The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers.

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The Two Towers

The Two Towers is the second volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's high fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings.

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Thranduil

Thranduil is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium.

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Treebeard

Treebeard (Sindarin: Fangorn) is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fantasy writings.

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Turner Classic Movies

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network operated by Turner Broadcasting System. Launched in 1994, TCM is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown business district of Atlanta, Georgia. Historically, the channel's programming consisted mainly of classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. Pictures (covering films released before 1950) and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (covering films released before May 1986). However, TCM now has licensing deals with other Hollywood film studios as well as its WarnerMedia sister company, Warner Bros. (which now controls the Turner Entertainment library and its own later films), and occasionally shows more recent films. The channel is available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Latin America, France, Spain, the Nordic countries, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific.

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Uruk-hai

The Uruk-hai are fictional characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth.

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VHS

The Video Home System (VHS) is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes.

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Viggo Mortensen

Viggo Peter Mortensen Jr. (born October 20, 1958) is a Danish-American actor, producer, author, musician, photographer, poet, and painter.

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Warg

In Norse mythology, a vargr (pl. vargar; often anglicised as warg or varg) is a wolf and in particular refers to the wolf Fenrir and his sons Sköll and Hati.

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Weta Digital

Weta Digital is a digital visual effects company based in Wellington, New Zealand.

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WingNut Films

WingNut Films is a New Zealand production company based in Wellington, New Zealand.

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Wizard (Middle-earth)

In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, the Wizards of Middle-earth are a group of beings outwardly resembling Men but possessing much greater physical and mental power.

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2002 in film

The year 2002 in film saw the release of significant sequels take place between The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, Stuart Little 2 and Blade II.

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2003 MTV Movie Awards

The 2003 MTV Movie Awards was held on May 31, 2003 in Los Angeles.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Two_Towers

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