Let's see, where were we? Oh right here! Like a parent reading his children their favorite story, Peter Jackson begins
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
, the second in his adaptation of the J.R.R. Tolkien trilogy, just about where the first one left off. No brief synopsis of the dozens of major characters introduced a year ago in
The Fellowship of the Ring
, or of the great quest they are bound to serve or thwart. Instead, director and co-writer Jackson begins Part II with a flashback to a literal cliff-hanger: the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) clinging to a...
