The Two Towers: The Lord of the Rings: Part Two

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Random House Worlds, Aug 12, 1986 - Fiction - 416 pages
The middle novel in The Lord of the Rings—the greatest fantasy epic of all time—which began in The Fellowship of the Ring, and which reaches its magnificent climax in The Return of the King.

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

The Fellowship is scattered. Some brace hopelessly for war against the ancient evil of Sauron. Others must contend with the treachery of the wizard Saruman. Only Frodo and Sam are left to take the One Ring, ruler of the accursed Rings of Power, to be destroyed in Mordor, the dark realm where Sauron is supreme. Their guide is Gollum, deceitful and obsessive slave to the corruption of the Ring.
 

Selected pages

Contents

The Departure of Boromir
3
The Riders of Rohan
13
The UrukHai
41
Treebeard
61
The White Rider
94
The King of the Golden Hall
116
Helms Deep
140
The Road to Isengard
160
The Taming of Smeagol
231
The Passage of the Marshes
252
The Black Gate Is Closed
271
Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
286
The Window on the West
304
The Forbidden Pool
328
Journey to the CrossRoads
341
The Stairs of Cirith Ungol
352

Flotsam and Jetsam
180
The Voice of Saruman
199
The Palantir
213
BOOK IV
229
Shelobs Lair
368
The Choices of Master Samwise
381
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Common terms and phrases

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About the author (1986)

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa. After serving in World War I, he embarked upon a distinguished academic career and was recognized as one of the finest philologists in the world. He was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, a fellow of Pembroke College, and a fellow of Merton College until his retirement in 1959. He is, however, beloved throughout the world as the creator of Middle-earth and author of such classic works as The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He died on September 2, 1973, at the age of eighty-one.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Two Towers: The Lord of the Rings: Part Two
Volume 2 of The Lord of the Rings
AuthorJ.R.R. Tolkien
PublisherRandom House Worlds, 1986
ISBN0345339711, 9780345339713
Length416 pages
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