An edition of The Two Towers (1954)

The Two Towers

Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings

3rd ed., reprint
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An edition of The Two Towers (1954)

The Two Towers

Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings

3rd ed., reprint
  • 4.35 ·
  • 184 Ratings
  • 586 Want to read
  • 46 Currently reading
  • 315 Have read

The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien's three-volume epic, is set in the imaginary world of Middle-earth -- home to many strange beings, and most notably hobbits, a peace-loving "little people," cheerful and shy. Since its original British publication in 1954-55, the saga has entranced readers of all ages. It is at once a classic myth and a modern fairy tale. Critic Michael Straight has hailed it as one of the "very few works of genius in recent literature." Middle-earth is a world receptive to poets, scholars, children, and all other people of good will. Donald Barr has described it as "a scrubbed morning world, and a ringing nightmare world...especially sunlit, and shadowed by perils very fundamental, of a peculiarly uncompounded darkness." The story of this world is one of high and heroic adventure. Barr compared it to Beowulf, C.S. Lewis to Orlando Furioso, W.H. Auden to The Thirty-nine Steps. In fact the saga is sui generis -- a triumph of imagination which springs to life within its own framework and on its own terms. - Jacket flap.

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. J.R.R. 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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447

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1978, Houghton Mifflin Company
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The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings
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Published in

London

Edition Notes

Previous ed.: London; Allen and Unwin, 1966.

Series
The Lord of the Rings, #2
Copyright Date
1979

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.9/1F

The Physical Object

Format
Mass Market Paperback
Pagination
442p. :
Number of pages
447

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22646050M
Internet Archive
lordofrings0000tolk_a0b2
ISBN 10
0048231568
ISBN 13
9780048231567
OCLC/WorldCat
993284071
British National Bibliography
GB7905351
British Library
006716450
Library Thing
3203350
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0048231568
Goodreads
1223951

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ARAGORN sped on up the hill.
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