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Posted on: Tuesday, December 17, 2002

'Rings' fans prepare to storm 'Two Towers'

 •  Review: Breath-taking 'Lord of the Rings' likely to rule box office
 •  Movie Showtimes

Advertiser Staff

Legolas (Orlando Bloom) battles against Uruk-hai warriors at Helm's Deep in "The Two Towers."

New Line Cinema

The highly anticipated yet only briefly awaited "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" opens in Hawai'i tomorrow — and not a moment too soon for Ring-jonesing fans.

"It's only been, like, a year since the last one, but I'm just dying to see Part 2," said Janis Raines, 31. "The first one was really awesome, and from what I read on the Net, 'Two Towers' is supposed to be even better."

Ryan Shiraishi, 17, is looking further ahead.

"I pretty much have been following all the articles so I know what to expect from this one," he said. "It'll be pretty up there, but it kind of sucks that we've got to wait another year after this to see the final one.

"If they put all three out at once, I would sit through it straight through," Shiraishi said. "Maybe twice."

The three films in the series were shot all at once and are being released over three consecutive winters.

Fueled by the success of last year's "The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring" and a unanimously favorable response by movie critics, advance tickets for the second installment of the Rings trilogy have been moving briskly at Consolidated's Ward 16 Theatres and other movie houses in Honolulu.

New and used copies of the the original novels by J.R.R. Tolkein have been selling steadily since last year, according to sales staff at Border's Books, Music and Cafe.

The extended DVD of the "Fellowship of the Ring," including scenes not included in the theatrical release, has been sold out at Blockbuster Video in Mililani since last week. Still, there are plenty of DVD and VHS copies for rent at the store. That's probably because hard-core fans purchased their copies of the film early on.

Of course, for some fans, the appetite for "Lord of the Rings" material is boundless.

"I bought the regular one when it first came out," Shiraishi said. "Then I had to buy the extended one when it came out a couple of months later."