The Two Towers
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Building the story begun in The Hobbit and continuing the adventures of The Fellowship of the Ring, this is the second part of Tolkien’s epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring the definitive text, hyperlinked footnotes and page references, and a detailed map of Middle-earth.Frodo and the Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. They have lost the wizard, Gandalf, in the battle with an evil spirit in the Mines of Moria; and at the Falls of Rauros, Boromir, seduced by the power of the Ring, tried to seize it by force. While Frodo and Sam made their escape the rest of the company were attacked by Orcs.Now they continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin – alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go.JRR Tolkien’s great work of imaginative fiction has been labelled both a heroic romance and a classic fantasy fiction. By turns comic and homely, epic and diabolic, the narrative moves through countless changes of scene and character in an imaginary world which is totally convincing in its detail.
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J. R. R. Tolkien. The Two Towers
THE TWO TOWERS. BEING THE SECOND PART OF. THE LORD OF THE RINGS. BY. J.R.R. TOLKIEN
SYNOPSIS
Chapter 1. THE DEPARTURE OF BOROMIR
Chapter 2. THE RIDERS OF ROHAN
Chapter 3. THE URUK-HAI
Chapter 4. TREEBEARD
Chapter 5. THE WHITE RIDER
Chapter 6. THE KING OF THE GOLDEN HALL
Chapter 7. HELM’S DEEP
Chapter 8. THE ROAD TO ISENGARD
Chapter 9. FLOTSAM AND JETSAM
Chapter 10. THE VOICE OF SARUMAN
Chapter 11. THE PALANTÍR
Chapter 1. THE TAMING OF SMÉAGOL
Chapter 2. THE PASSAGE OF THE MARSHES
Chapter 3. THE BLACK GATE IS CLOSED
Chapter 4. OF HERBS AND STEWED RABBIT
Chapter 5. THE WINDOW ON THE WEST
Chapter 6. THE FORBIDDEN POOL
Chapter 7. JOURNEY TO THE CROSS-ROADS
Chapter 8. THE STAIRS OF CIRITH UNGOL
Chapter 9. SHELOB’S LAIR
Chapter 10. THE CHOICES OF MASTER SAMWISE
MAPS
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The Two Towers is the second part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic adventure The Lord of the Rings, a beautifully written masterpiece which is among the greatest works of imaginative fiction of the twentieth century. ‘For width of imagination’ said the novelist Richard Hughes, ‘it almost beggars parallel, and it is nearly as remarkable for its vividness and narrative skill which carries the reader on enthralled for page after page.’
C.S. Lewis wrote: ‘No imaginary world has been projected which is at once multifarious and so true to its own inner laws; none so seemingly objective, so disinfected from the taint of an author’s merely individual psychology; none so relevant to the actual human situation yet free from allegory. And what fine shading there is in the variations of style to meet the almost endless diversity of scenes and characters – comic, homely, epic, monstrous, or diabolic.’
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‘I am called Strider,’ answered Aragorn. ‘I came out of the North. I am hunting Orcs.’
The Rider leaped from his horse. Giving his spear to another who rode up and dismounted at his side, he drew his sword and stood face to face with Aragorn, surveying him keenly, and not without wonder. At length he spoke again.
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