The Two Towers is the second volume of J.R.R. Tolkien’s high fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings. It is preceded by The Fellowship of the Ring and followed by The Return of the King.
The Lord of the Rings is composed of six “books,” aside from an introduction, a prologue and six appendices. The novel was originally published as three separate volumes due to post-World War II paper shortages and size and price considerations. The Two Towers covers Books III and IV.
Tolkien wrote, “The Two Towers gets as near as possible to finding a title to cover the widely divergent Books III and IV; and can be left ambiguous.” At this stage he planned to title the individual books. The proposed title for Book III was The Treason of Isengard; Book IV 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.
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