Excellent sequel!

Rating: Null/10 (3 August 2004)

Jackson continues the epic series with amazing battle sequences and wonderful new characters. Who will forget Treebeard, Grima Wormtongue or Theoden, King of Rohan and of course Gollum!?!
Added is the humor and rivalry between Gimli the dwarf and Legolas the elf.

Only drawback is that the ending of the first film contains a part of the second book and part of the Two Towers gets left for the third movie. Other than that, this is a real great sequel that is somewhat overlooked in the trilogy.
The character development is great as the fellowship breaks into three groups. I think we can all identify with one of these characters and imagine what we would do given these circumstances.
Imagination. That's the name of the game. If you think it's not a valuable asset, ask Peter Jackson, who allowed himself to use imagination to make into a movie his favorite series of books from his youth.