well okay here the story, Sauron is the big bad long time ago, the last alliance of men and elves brought him down, Isildur cut the ring from his finger and he 'died' but he didn't really because he put his 'essence' is THE ONE RING which Isildur kept because the ring have this power over ppl to make them keep it. So the dark lord is bad as in alive in dark armor, Baradur (the dark tower) was destoryed but the foundation not knocked so orcs rebuilt it. so now the dark lord is back in power with the ring wrath to get back the ring so Sauron can have ultimate power... and they're trying to get to fordo because bilbo found the ring in 'the hobbit' and then passed it down to frodo in the LOTR. so you see i can take a long time in explaining and i could go into more detail but i think i'm boring you.
I've see TTT only once but once the dvd comes out i'm getting it the first day and watching it over and over again and again like I did with FOTR. I can't wait till the ROTK hehehe, oh and i can't wait till summer where i can actually watch LOTR once everyday like i did with sound of music last year.
--mandy