Rewatching the Lord of the Rings

The Two Towers

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Daniel Matthews & Daniel Matthews
February 20, 2025

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👋 Welcome back to Rewatching The Lord of the Rings! 

We’ve compiled even more fun ideas to help you host an incredible Two Towers-themed Rewatching Party. Quick question though…which Towers are the Two Towers? Reply to this email if you know…

Before you Rewatch…

🤓 Here are some facts you need to know about The Two Towers, the second film in Peter Jackson’s adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic The Lord of the Rings:

📅 Release Date: December 18th, 2002
⏳ Runtime: 2 hr. 59 min. (theatrical cut) 3 hrs. 43 min. (extended cut)
🍅 Rotten Tomato Score: 95% (critics) 95% (audience)
💰 Budget: $94 Million
🤑 Earnings: $947 Million

🎥 Other films released in 2002: Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, Bourne Identity, Lilo & Stitch, Catch Me If You Can, and 8 Mile

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While you Rewatch…

🫡 Okay…you’ve got the facts and now all you need are the supplies necessary for the long rewatch journey ahead! Don’t you worry…we’ve got cocktails and canapes (whatever that is) that’ll make you as joyful as a Hobbit at entmoot! Wait…

🥂 Cocktails

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🥃 Fangorn Old Fashioned

a deep, earthy cocktail with woody and herbal that can evoke the ancient ents to do some pretty hasty things…

Ingredients

  • 2 oz whiskey (bourbon or rye)

  • ¼ oz maple syrup

  • 2 dashes Angostura bitters

  • 1 dash pine or cedar bitters

  • orange peel and rosemary sprig

  • ice cube

Instructions

  • Combine whiskey, maple syrup, and bitters over a large ice cube

  • Stir gently until well mixed

  • Garnish with orange peel and rosemary sprig (torch rosemary for aromatic, smoky effect)

💣 The Deeping Bomb

a dynamic whiskey bomb cocktail that not even Legolas can put down…

Ingredients

  • 6 oz dark beer

  • 1 oz whiskey

  • ½ oz Kahlua

Instructions

  • Fill a pint glass halfway with dark beer

  • In a shot glass, combine whiskey and Kahlua

  • When ready, drop shot glass into pint glass and enjoy

🍿 Canapés (elvish for appetizers?)

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🥓 The Eye of Sauron

“Hey Alexa, play Every Breath You Take by The Police” - A torturous, sizzling creation of pure evil…oh…wait nvm. It’s an orange roll wrapped in bacon! What’s not to love here? This tasty treat will help you push through all those Ent scenes.

Ingredients

  • Pilsbury Orange Rolls

  • Bacon

Instructions

  • Cook bacon half-way (½ past raw and wiggling) then place on rack to dry

  • Open and unroll orange rolls

  • Roll orange rolls back up with bacon, creating the same shape just infused with bacon

  • Place new orange rolls on baking pan and follow baking instructions on package

  • Remove from oven and drizzle with orange icing while still warm

  • Let cool, cue music, and enjoy

After you Rewatch…

😁 Hey…wasn’t that fun?? Now it’s time to debrief and debate your favorite parts of the film. Below are a few of our answers to inspire your conversation! Let us know some of your own by emailing us at [email protected]

We’ve also attached the questions we used on our Rewatching The Lord of the Rings podcast underneath this section, which you can listen to wherever you get your podcasts. Feel free to follow it question for question or make up some of your own (we’d especially love to hear your “Gandalf the White” Award nominee)!

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Discussion Guide

Podcast Discussion Questions...For a better way to rewatch (and discuss) The Lord of the Rings1.16 MB • PDF File

🤔 Well…by now you’ve already had one successful rewatch party right? Now you’ve got more facts, food, drinks, and questions to make it even better than the first. And just a friendly reminder…dwarves are wasted on cross-country.

See you on our next newsletter for The Return of the King!

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Created by
Daniel Matthews

Edited by
Thaddeus Moore

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