The grandiloquence that sustained the second installment, "The Two Towers," with its pounding and operatic martial fury - a movie that actually created a state of siege and left audiences hanging - can be found here.

Campaign mailings, e-mail messages and letters to editors reached an operatic fury worthy of Wagner, or at least Warner Brothers.

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The grandiloquence that sustained the second installment, "The Two Towers," with its pounding and operatic martial fury, can be found here.