From Time, a very analytical look at The Two Towers:

Popular culture is the most sensitive barometer we have for gauging shifts in the national mood, and it's registering a big one right now. Our fascination with science fiction reflected a deep collective faith that technology would lead us to a cyberutopia of robot butlers serving virtual mai tais. With The Two Towers, the new installment of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, about to storm the box office, we are seeing what might be called the enchanting of America. A darker, more pessimistic attitude toward technology and the future has taken hold, and the evidence is our new preoccupation with fantasy, a nostalgic, sentimental, magical vision of a medieval age. The future just isn't what it used to be—and the past seems to be gaining on us.

I always wonder if these analyses of pop culture are reading way too much into things. Can it not be that these are just damn good movies?

But the appeal of fantasy goes deeper than mere nostalgic Luddism. Tolkien, a veteran of the British nightmare at the Somme in World War I, is a poet of war, and we are a nation in need of a good, clear war story. At a time when Americans are wandering deeper into a nebulous conflict against a faceless enemy, Tolkien gives us the war we wish we were fighting—a struggle with a foe whose face we can see, who fights out on the open battlefield, far removed from innocent civilians. In Middle-earth, unlike the Middle East, you can tell an evildoer because he or she looks evil.

I just don't know. This may be the case for some people, but I can tell you that I won't be thinking about terrorists or the Middle East when I go see The Two Towers. I'm going to get caught up in a fantastic tale that has been masterfully adapted to the big screen, to see a movie that builds on a wonderfully written story by aiding our imagination. I'm going to see the second installment of one the best trilogies to have come to the big screen in many, many years.

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