ALL Unreleased & Deleted Scenes from Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers

Published 2024-05-24
They filmed a lot for the Lord of the Rings movies, some of which they changed and some of which they just cut out altogether. Director Peter Jackson revealed they have over 1300 hours of raw footage from the trilogy, much of it still unreleased. In this video, we'll explore all of the deleted/unreleased and alternate scenes from The Two Towers that we know of, drawing from behind-the-scenes material, trailers and images from various sources!

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Chapters:

00:00 - 00:40 Intro
00:41 - 01:00 Frodo and Sam at Emyn Muil Extended
01:01 - 01:24 Uruks and Orcs Alternative
01:25 - 01:37 Saruman and the Wildmen Extended
01:38 - 02:09 Uruk Camp Alternative
02:10 - 02:52 The Three Hunters Additional Shots
02:53 - 03:11 Merry and Pippin's Escape in One-Shot
03:12 - 03:33 Treebeard Additional Lines
03:33 - 03:45 Gandalf and Shadowfax Alternative Shots
03:46 - 04:22 Gríma Poisoning Théodred
04:23 - 04:49 Gríma Scene Extended
04:50 - 05:30 Additional Gandalf Lines (from trailers)
05:31 - 06:03 Éowyn Alternative Line
06:04 - 06:22 Gollum Additional Lines
06:23 - 06:50 Rangers Scene Extended
06:51 - 07:14 Young Aragorn and Arwen Flashback
07:15 - 07:30 Elrond Additional Line (from trailer)
07:31 - 07:48 Hama's Death Extended
07:49 - 08:14 The Original Warg Attack
08:15 - 08:33 Saruman and Gríma Additional Scene
08:34 - 08:45 The Rangers Torturing Gollum
08:46 - 09:20 Frodo Turning Into Gollum in Vision
09:21 - 09:35 Aragorn Riding Extended
09:36 - 09:56 Gimli Funny Additional Line
09:57 - 10:25 Théoden Speech in the Armory
10:26 - 11:28 Arwen Fighting at Helm's Deep
11:29 - 12:39 Arwen's Original Storyline
12:40 - 13:29 A Concil of Elves in Lothlórien
13:30 - 14:03 Additional Battle Footage
14:04 - 15:03 Éowyn Fighting Uruk-Hai in the Glittering Caves
15:04 - 15:29 The Horn of Helm Hammerhand's Effect on the Uruk-Hai
15:30 - 15:54 Frodo and Sam's Fight Extended
15:55 - 16:29 Outro

Sources:
- The Two Towers and Retrn of the King Appendices (the behind-the-scenes material)
- The Original Arwen Storyline: originaltrilogy.com/topic/is-anyone-looking-forwar…
- Éowyn and Uruk-Hai (clip)    • The Lord Of The Rings The Two Towers ...  
- Arwen at Helm's Deep (image) scrapbook.theonering.net/scrapbook/movies/characte…
- Uruk-Hai Overlooking Camp (clip)    • The Lord Of The Rings The Two Towers ...  
- Arwen and Galadriel in Lothlorien (image) img-s2.onedio.com/id-633bd3ac0f05f1b74c91d5f7/rev-…
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Official Trailer #2    • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers...  
- Frodo and Sam at Emyn Muil (clip)    • The Lord of the Rings - The Two Tower...  
- Merry and Pippin in Uruk Camp (clip)    • The Lord of the Rings - The Two Tower...  
- Merry and Pippin Falling in front of an Orc Head    • The Lord of the Rings - The Two Tower...  
- Grima Action Figure (image) gofigure.toys/media/ss_size1/grimawormtongue.jpg
- Gandalf's Line About the Union Between Orthanc and Barad-Dur    • The Lord of the Rings - The Two Tower...  
- Saruman and Grima scene    • LOTR, Brad Dourif behind-the-scenes  

- The full footage of the The Hobbit panel at ComicCon 2014:    • THE HOBBIT 3 Battle Of The Five Armie...      • The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Ar...      • The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Ar...  

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All Comments (21)
  • @eongrobler
    Great video, especially as it's not clickbait. Thoroughly and well done. A Return of the King coverage would be welcomed. Hoping for those true Ultimate Editions along the line.
  • @danielsun6166
    I would watch a 5 hour version of this movie if ever released.
  • R.I.P. Bernard Hill, the one and the only king Théoden of Rohan. We miss you, great actor. Forth Eorlingas!
  • @tonypapas9854
    9:57 Bernard Hill just crushed his role as Theoden......even in a deleted scene.
  • @laurasaxon694
    Grima poisoning Theodred seems like a very good explanation for how quickly he deteriorated and why Grima looked so surprised when he came into the room and found Eowyn sobbing over him.
  • the Arwen stuff is super interesting, considering they already added a lot to her character.
  • @TheEggroll4321
    There was no need for a scene depicting what Frodo would look like if he failed. Gollum was a constant representation of that the entire journey
  • @user-jh1dz6oi1p
    I would gladly see a whole movie just based on Aragorn and Arwen's story, with both their origins, their first encounter, their journey both separately and together, and their days as King and Queen of Gondor and the death of Aragorn and Arwen's end afterwards, and how their love story was all meant to happen since Eru decreted it was meant to be. I have a soft spot for these two characters. Viggo Mortensen and Liv Tyler were born to portray Aragorn and Arwen. You see them on screen and you just stand there, mesmerized ❤
  • @Shatter149
    arwen fighting at helms deep is the crazy part for me
  • @joemck74
    Imagine if they whipped out a 25 minute scene from the Old Forest to Bree, and it was actually awesome and believable - with a jolly but somehow terrifying Tom Bombadil singing songs that you can't get out of your head and Barrow Wights and living trees that give adults nightmares.
  • Bernard Hill was perfect for Theoden. He had that king’s aura that his speech could truly move the audiences. Hearing his speech in Pelennor Field was enough to make me want to join him in the war.
  • @mevb
    I don't expect a newer extended edition but I certainly want an anniversary edition with those extra scenes as seperate deleted scenes to be released. Come on, Warner Bros! Just let Jackson release them already because it'll mean more money for you!
  • @bintube5269
    Crazy how im still finding out about new deleted scenes in these movies. Kinda like Star Wars, they just keep coming.
  • @unferrc
    Thank you for putting this together. Very interesting and informative. I've always wished Arwen's story arc had a lot more than was shown. I understand the editing process is difficult, plus the pressure of compacting in a coherent way. But these additional shots would have made her character a stronger part of the story.
  • @MrPeantify
    I'm pretty sure when Gandald says "there is a union now between the two towers" that scene made it as a cut scene in the PS2 LOTR video game "Return of the King"
  • @Marandahir
    Great vid. One note: Celeborn is pronounced Keleborn, not Seleborn. All names that start with C in Tolkien’s works make a K sound, not an S sound. He was of a mind to update the books with Ks instead of Cs but K looks harsher than C and he wanted to preserve the letter K for “ugly” words like Uruk (though even Orc and Sindarin Yrch replaces it with a C)!
  • Sooo much material, so much effort behind this movie, so little went on the screen. Cannot imagine how is for the actors as well, to see so much of their work not appearing every time. Thanks for the video!
  • @Rick_King
    Another problem with the Worg attack. The people were traveling east, from Edoras to Helm's Deep. The Worgs attacked from the left, or North. Coming from Isengard, they should have attacked from the right! No matter, I still love the films, and would love to see extended versions of the extended versions!
  • @kobarsos82
    Its insane, there was so much more material it could easily have been another full movie, making for a tetralogy. But its ok I guess we don't need to be greedy. We are lucky this happened in the first place, and this trilogy is already legendary enough even without all that material missing. Would have been so interesting and beautiful to see more of Arwen and Eowyn, the politics and the elves, but these movies do remain relevant even today, nothing even comes close when it comes to fantasy storytelling. What a terrific job from all that amazing cast and production team, Peter Jackson at the height of its career, a once in a century masterpiece. Damn!
  • @seanmiller5460
    Given Bernard Hill's passing, I would love to see his Helms Deep speech in the armory.