The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers trivia

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Mini Quiz

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Question 1

Playing Saruman in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, what knighted actor previously played Count Dracula and a Bond villain?

Sir Christopher Lee played Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun and was the only cast member to have actually met author J.R.R. Tolkien in person.

Question 2

To create the choked, guttural voice of Gollum in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Andy Serkis mimicked what action of his cat?

Watching his cat inspired both the choking sound and Gollum's hunched, full-body movements. Serkis drank a special honey mixture to soothe his heavily strained vocal cords.

Question 3

Actor Viggo Mortensen breaks his toe during an emotional scene in The Two Towers doing what action?

Director Peter Jackson used this exact take in the final film. Mortensen's genuine scream of pain perfectly fit Aragorn's despair over believing his hobbit friends were dead.

Question 4

The ancient tree-shepherds called Ents attack Isengard in The Two Towers for what reason?

Saruman ordered his orcs to cut down Fangorn Forest to fuel the furnaces of his war machine. This betrayal enrages Treebeard and triggers the destructive March of the Ents.

Question 5

The Uruk-hai, Saruman's army, breach the wall in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers using what tactic?

This primitive gunpowder, invented by Saruman and known as "blasting fire," was planted in a drainage culvert to exploit the Deeping Wall's only physical weakness.