Why aren't there any The Two Towers threads?

It’s strange. I thought there were Tolkien fans on the SDMB. But as I search around the boards, I can find nary a thread discussing the books or the movie. I’ve searched extensively through Cafe Society, only to come up empty, time and time again.
You all do realize the movies came out yesterday, right? Fairly large opening from what I hear. Yet, taking a semi-random sample of 41 out of the 50 threads on the first page of CS reveals NOTHING about LOTR or Middle Earth. It’s very confusing to me.

The only explanation I can think of for this phenomenon is that last year there was an absolute deluge of FOTR threads. Probably two a day for a couple of weeks. It overwhelmed the Dopers to the point where everyone got sick of discussing it. This year, it’s clear that we’ve learned our lesson from the mistakes of history. It’s my hypothesis that, knowing this would be a fairly popular topic, posters have actually not started a thread for fear of repeatition.

I don’t understand why this is the case, though. Surely if they had searched around a bit before deciding not to start a thread, they’d have discovered that they would have been the very first person to discuss either the book or the movie The Two Towers. How groundbreaking would that have been, huh?

You’re joking, right?

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/search.php?action=showresults&searchid=308541&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending

The OP’s not nearly as funny as it thinks it is.

Swing and a miss.

Er, most of those are from October, when the trailer first came out. I think Ender’s talking about new “review” threads.

There are three in Cafe Society…

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=151156

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=150917

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=150929

…but I think the main review action at the moment is here in the Pit.

Some arrogant ass got paid for this Two Towers review?!?

And if it was a joke, Ender, it wasn’t a particularly funny one.

Well, it was kind of subtle.

I first thought it was a complaint about an excess of TTT threads.

But I’m not seeing what I would call an excessive number of them.

As I said. Subtle.

Compared to last year, there are virtually zero LOTR threads. However, I think the OP was trying to be sarcastic. If that’s the case, I’d suggest another go at it.

I thought it was funny, Enderw24.

I found it amusing.
Is GD still unsullied?

Well whaddya know? I found a few.

Misc questions about Middle EarthIf LotR Had Been Written By Someone Else!?
“The Two Towers was Hippy Love-In until that Evil Peter Jackson came along!”
the two towers movie review
Two Towers (Spoilers)
Box Office: The Two Towers
The Two Towers 24 hour countdown thread
I saw two towers (spoilers?)

I must have been misspelling Tolkein’s name or something in my search. Weird.

I thought it was funny.

Of course, I don’t have any interest in seeing LOTR (as it is known). Does that mean I’ll be banned?

Why not? I thought it was pretty funny. I was thinking the exact same thing.

… you know, I think the number of “review/spoiler” threads might be almost as frustrating for LOTR fans, like myself, as for non-fans. I mean, now I have to read THREE different threads to get all the goods about this movie that I, sadly, have not yet had a chance to get to. Why can’t all these strangers consider how much easier it would be for me if I could just open up one thread and read it all the way through to get the info? <<sigh>>