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Mike's Musings on The Two Towers By Mike Nursey Learn to Speak Elvish Now you too can learn to speak Elvish. Check out www.grey-company.org. Here are some ideas Amin delotha ile. Antolle ulua sulrim = I hate you. Much wind pours from your mouth. Unma ma' ten rashwe, ta tuluva a' lle = Don't look for trouble, it will come to you. Amin Whatta loada cods-wollop lle . = GET-A-LIFE Check out the website for more gems to bore your friends, (if you have any after learning those phrases).!!!!! and write reviews 'Though it's no incitement to cinema-going,the film has collected a fearful dread from the way the world has gone since 9/11.Peter Jackson's film, unplanned though it was, now looks like a prophetic allegory for Osama Bin Laden's messianic threats to the world order as well as the besieged resistance of the great and the small. Even the subtitle The Two Towers involuntarily recalls the Twin Towers. Lines like 'A new power is coming, its victory is at hand' or 'There will be no dawn for men' or 'War is upon us' have gained resonance of the fundamentalism that overlays cinematic fantasy......The oak trees are so rooted in protocol that they're almost potbound-the comparison to the United Nations doesn't pass unoticed-but they rally round the forces of Good in the nick of time' Alexander Walker reviews the film by Peter Jackson the Two Towers in the Evening Standard. Personally I preferred Richard, (from Richard and Judy), who said that Galadriel was a forerunner of Margaret Thatcher, in the Fellowship of the Ring.!!!!! Next week was grandad in Only Fools and Horses an Inspiration for Osama Bin Laden, and did tobacco companys sponsor pipeweed in the films.!!!!!