# Why aren't there any The Two Towers threads?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-there-any-the-two-towers-threads/143854
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [December 19, 2002, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-there-any-the-two-towers-threads/143854 "2002-12-19T18:29:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-there-any-the-two-towers-threads/143854/1 "2002-12-19T18:29:11Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@jack\_ss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jack_ss)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-there-any-the-two-towers-threads/143854/2 "2002-12-19T18:43:20Z")
You’re joking, right?
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/search.php?action=showresults&searchid=308541&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/search.php?action=showresults&searchid=308541&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending)
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### Author:  [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-there-any-the-two-towers-threads/143854/3 "2002-12-19T18:48:13Z")
The OP’s not nearly as funny as it thinks it is.
Swing and a miss.
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### Author:  [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-there-any-the-two-towers-threads/143854/4 "2002-12-19T18:52:57Z")
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=151156)
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=150917](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=150917)
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=150929](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?!?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=151292)
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### Author:  [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-there-any-the-two-towers-threads/143854/5 "2002-12-19T18:54:53Z")
And if it was a joke, Ender, it wasn’t a particularly funny one.
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-there-any-the-two-towers-threads/143854/6 "2002-12-19T19:15:10Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-there-any-the-two-towers-threads/143854/7 "2002-12-19T20:08:37Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-there-any-the-two-towers-threads/143854/8 "2002-12-19T20:16:36Z")
I thought it was funny, **Enderw24**.
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### Author:  [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-there-any-the-two-towers-threads/143854/9 "2002-12-19T20:20:38Z")
I found it amusing.
Is GD still unsullied?
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### Author:  [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-there-any-the-two-towers-threads/143854/10 "2002-12-19T21:18:23Z")
Well whaddya know? I found a few.
[Misc questions about Middle Earth](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=149181)[If LotR Had Been Written By Someone Else!?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=138905)
[“The Two Towers was Hippy Love-In until that Evil Peter Jackson came along!”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=151291)
[the two towers movie review](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=151156)
[Two Towers (Spoilers)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=151437)
[Box Office: The Two Towers](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=151492)
[The Two Towers 24 hour countdown thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=150917)
[I saw two towers (spoilers?)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=151402)
I must have been misspelling Tolkein’s name or something in my search. Weird.
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### Author:  [@stylize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stylize)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-there-any-the-two-towers-threads/143854/11 "2002-12-19T21:34:21Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-there-any-the-two-towers-threads/143854/12 "2002-12-19T21:55:24Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Duck Duck Goose \*
> \*\*And if it was a joke, Ender, it wasn’t a particularly funny one. \*\*
Why not? I thought it was pretty funny. I was thinking the exact same thing.
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### Author:  [@Realhoops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Realhoops)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-there-any-the-two-towers-threads/143854/13 "2002-12-19T21:57:44Z")
… 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? \<\\>