Lord of the Rings the Twin Towers Book Cover Art
 First edition, with Tolkien'south artwork | |
| Author | J. R. R. Tolkien |
|---|---|
| Country | Uk |
| Linguistic communication | English language |
| Serial | The Lord of the Rings |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Set in | Middle-earth |
| Publisher | George Allen & Unwin[one] |
| Publication date | 11 November 1954 |
| Pages | 352 (outset edition) |
| OCLC | 936070 |
| Dewey Decimal | 823.914 |
| LC Class | PR6039.O32 L6 1954, v.2 |
| Preceded by | The Fellowship of the Band |
| Followed by | The Render of the Male monarch |
The Two Towers is the 2d volume of J. R. R. Tolkien'south high fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings. It is preceded past The Fellowship of the Band and followed by The Return of the King.
Championship and publication [edit]
The Lord of the Rings is equanimous of six "books", aside from an introduction, a prologue and six appendices. However, the novel was originally published as three carve up volumes, due to post-World War Ii paper shortages and size and cost considerations.[2] The Two Towers covers Books Three and Four.
Tolkien wrote: "The Two Towers gets as near every bit possible to finding a title to encompass the widely divergent Books Three and Four; and can be left ambiguous."[three] At this stage he planned to championship the individual books. The proposed title for Book 3 was The Treason of Isengard. Book Four was titled The Journey of the Ringbearers or The Ring Goes East. The titles The Treason of Isengard and The Ring Goes East were used in the Millennium edition. In other editions the Books are often untitled.
In letters to Rayner Unwin, Tolkien considered naming the ii as Orthanc and Barad-dûr, Minas Tirith and Barad-dûr, or Orthanc and the Belfry of Cirith Ungol.[3] [four] All the same, a month later, he wrote a annotation published at the end of The Fellowship of the Ring, and afterward drew a cover analogy, both of which identified the pair as Minas Morgul and Orthanc.[5] [6] In the illustration, Orthanc is shown every bit a black tower, three-horned, with the sign of the White Manus beside it; Minas Morgul is a white tower, with a thin waning moon above it, in reference to its original name, Minas Ithil, the Tower of the Rising Moon. Between the two towers a Nazgûl flies.
Contents [edit]
Some editions of the book contain a Synopsis for readers who have not read the earlier volumes. The body of the volume consists of Book 3: The Treason of Isengard, and Book Four: The Ring Goes East.
Book III: The Treason Of Isengard [edit]
A party of big Orcs, Uruk-hai, sent by Saruman, and other Orcs sent by Sauron and led by Grishnákh, assail the Fellowship. Boromir tries to protect Merry and Pippin from the Orcs, simply they kill him and capture the 2 hobbits. Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas determine to pursue the Orcs taking Merry and Pippin to Saruman. In the kingdom of Rohan, the Orcs are killed by Riders of Rohan, led by Éomer. Merry and Pippin escape into Fangorn Wood, where they are befriended by Treebeard, the oldest of the tree-like Ents. Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas track the hobbits to Fangorn. There they unexpectedly run into Gandalf.
Gandalf explains that he killed the Balrog. He was also killed in the fight, only was sent back to Middle-earth to complete his mission. He is clothed in white and is now Gandalf the White, for he has taken Saruman's identify as the primary of the wizards. Gandalf assures his friends that Merry and Pippin are safe. Together they ride to Edoras, majuscule of Rohan. Gandalf frees Théoden, Rex of Rohan, from the influence of Saruman's spy Gríma Wormtongue. Théoden musters his fighting strength and rides with his men to the ancient fortress of Helm's Deep, while Gandalf departs to seek help from Treebeard.
Meanwhile, the Ents, roused by Merry and Pippin from their peaceful ways, attack and destroy Isengard, Saruman's stronghold, and inundation information technology, trapping the wizard in the tower of Orthanc. Gandalf convinces Treebeard to ship an army of Huorns to Théoden's aid. He brings an ground forces of Rohirrim to Captain's Deep, and they defeat the Orcs, who flee into the forest of Huorns, never to be seen again. Gandalf, Theoden, Legolas, and Gimli ride to Isengard, and are surprised to find Merry and Pippin relaxing amidst the ruins. Gandalf offers Saruman a chance to turn abroad from evil. When Saruman refuses to heed, Gandalf strips him of his rank and most of his powers. After Saruman leaves, Wormtongue throws downwards a hard round object to try to impale Gandalf. Pippin picks it upwards; Gandalf swiftly takes it, only Pippin steals information technology in the night. Information technology is revealed to exist a palantír, a seeing-stone that Saruman used to speak with Sauron, and that Sauron used to ensnare him. Pippin is seen by Sauron, but Sauron misunderstands the circumstances. Gandalf immediately rides for Minas Tirith, chief city of Gondor, taking Pippin with him.
Book Four: The Ring Goes East [edit]
Frodo and Sam, heading for Mordor, struggle through the barren hills and cliffs of the Emyn Muil. They get aware they are being watched and tracked; on a moonlit night they capture Gollum, who has followed them from Moria. Frodo makes Gollum swear to serve him, as Ringbearer, and asks him to guide them to Mordor. Gollum leads them across the Dead Marshes. Sam overhears Gollum debating with his alter ego, Sméagol, whether to pause his promise and steal the Ring.
They notice that the Blackness Gate of Mordor is also well guarded, and so instead they travel south through the country of Ithilien to a secret pass that Gollum knows. On the style, they are captured by rangers led by Faramir, Boromir'southward brother, and brought to the underground fastness of Henneth Annûn. Faramir resists the temptation to seize the Ring and, disobeying continuing orders to abort strangers establish in Ithilien, releases them.
Gollum – who is torn between his loyalty to Frodo and his want for the Ring – guides the hobbits to the pass, only leads them into the lair of the cracking spider Shelob in the tunnels of Cirith Ungol. Frodo holds up the souvenir given to him in Lothlorien: the Phial of Galadriel, which holds the light of Eärendil's star. The calorie-free drives Shelob back. Frodo cuts through a giant spider web using his sword Sting. Shelob attacks again, and Frodo falls to her venom. Sam picks up Sting and the Phial. He seriously wounds and drives off the monster. Believing Frodo to exist dead, Sam takes the Ring to continue the quest alone. Orcs observe Frodo; Sam overhears them and learns that Frodo is still live.
Disquisitional reception [edit]
Donald Barr in The New York Times gave a positive review, calling it "an extraordinary piece of work – pure excitement, unencumbered narrative, moral warmth, barefaced rejoicing in beauty, but excitement most of all".[7]
Anthony Boucher, reviewing the volume in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, wrote that The Two Towers "makes inordinate demands upon the patience of its readers" with passages which "could be lopped abroad without affecting form or content". Nevertheless, he lavished praise on the volume, maxim "no writer salve E. R. Eddison has ever so satisfactorily and compellingly created his own mythology and made it come vividly alive ... described in some of the near sheerly beautiful prose that this harsh decade has seen in print."[eight]
The Times Literary Supplement chosen it a "prose epic in praise of courage" and stated that Tolkien'south Westernesse "comes to rank in the reader's imagination with Asgard and Camelot".[9] [ten]
Mahmud Manzalaoui, in the Egyptian Gazette, wrote that the book "has not pleased readers of the staple modern psychological novel", but that information technology signified a new trend in fiction.[eleven] [10]
John Hashemite kingdom of jordan, reviewing the book for the Irish Press, wrote admiring its narrative "weaving of epic, heroic romance, parable, and fairy tale, and the more adventurous kind of detective story, into a pattern at in one case foreign and curiously familiar to our experience". He compared the magician Gandalf's expiry and reappearance to Christ'south resurrection.[12] [x]
References [edit]
- ^ "The Ii Towers". Between the Covers. Retrieved 28 December 2010.
- ^ The Lord of the Rings Extended Movie Edition, Appendix Role four
- ^ a b Carpenter, Humphrey, ed. (1981), The Messages of J. R. R. Tolkien, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, #140, ISBN978-0-395-31555-2
- ^ Carpenter, Humphrey, ed. (1981), The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, #143, ISBN978-0-395-31555-2
- ^ "The 2nd role is called The Two Towers, since the events recounted in it are dominated by Orthanc, ..., and the fortress of Minas Morgul..."
- ^ Tolkien's own comprehend design for The 2 Towers
- ^ Barr, Donald (1 May 1955). "Shadowy World of Men and Hobbits". The New York Times.
- ^ Boucher, Anthony (August 1955). "Recommended Reading". The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. p. 93.
- ^ Betimes (17 December 1954). "The Ballsy of Westernesse". The Times Literary Supplement. p. 817.
- ^ a b c Thompson, George H. (15 Feb 1985). "Early Review of Books by J.R.R. Tolkien - Role II". Mythlore. eleven (3): 61-63 (commodity 11).
- ^ Manzalaoui, Mahmud (18 February 1955). "No Bogus Allegory in this Fairy Romance". Egyptian Gazette. p. two.
- ^ Jordan, John (18 December 1954). "The Lilliputian Life of Human". Irish gaelic Press. p. 4.
External links [edit]
- The Two Towers at the Internet Volume List
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Towers
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