described in some of the most sheerly beautiful prose that this harsh decade has seen in print." Eddison has ever so satisfactorily and compellingly created his own mythology and made it come vividly alive. Nevertheless, he lavished praise on the volume, saying "no writer save E. Īnthony 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 away without affecting form or content". Tolkienĭonald Barr in The New York Times gave a positive review, calling it "an extraordinary work – pure excitement, unencumbered narrative, moral warmth, barefaced rejoicing in beauty, but excitement most of all". Between the two towers a Nazgûl flies.įurther information: Reception of J. In the illustration, Orthanc is shown as a black tower, three-horned, with the sign of the White Hand 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.
However, a month later, he wrote a note published at the end of The Fellowship of the Ring, and later drew a cover illustration, both of which identified the pair as Minas Morgul and Orthanc. In letters to Rayner Unwin, Tolkien considered naming the two as Orthanc and Barad-dûr, Minas Tirith and Barad-dûr, or Orthanc and the Tower of Cirith Ungol. The titles The Treason of Isengard and The Ring Goes East were used in the Millennium edition. Book IV was titled The Journey of the Ringbearers or The Ring Goes East. The proposed title for Book III was The Treason of Isengard.
Tolkien wrote: " The Two Towers gets as near as possible to finding a title to cover the widely divergent Books 3 and 4 and can be left ambiguous." At this stage he planned to title the individual books.
However, the novel was originally published as three separate volumes, due to post-World War II paper shortages and size and price considerations. The Lord of the Rings is composed of six "books", aside from an introduction, a prologue and six appendices.
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