![]() ![]() Together they ride to Edoras, capital of Rohan. Gandalf assures his friends that Merry and Pippin are safe. He is clothed in white and is now Gandalf the White, for he has taken Saruman's place as the chief of the wizards. He was also killed in the fight, but was sent back to Middle-earth to complete his mission. Gandalf explains that he killed the Balrog. Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas track the hobbits to Fangorn. Merry and Pippin escape into Fangorn Forest, where they are befriended by Treebeard, the oldest of the tree-like Ents. In the kingdom of Rohan, the Orcs are killed by Riders of Rohan, led by Éomer. Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas decide to pursue the Orcs taking Merry and Pippin to Saruman. Boromir tries to protect Merry and Pippin from the Orcs, but they kill him and capture the two hobbits. The body of the volume consists of Book Three: The Treason of Isengard, and Book Four: The Ring Goes East.īook III: The Treason of Isengard Ī party of large Orcs, Uruk-hai, sent by Saruman, and other Orcs sent by Sauron and led by Grishnákh, attack the Fellowship. Some editions of the volume contain a Synopsis for readers who have not read the earlier volumes. 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. In other editions the Books are often untitled. The titles The Treason of Isengard and The Ring Goes East were used in the Millennium edition. Book Four was titled The Journey of the Ringbearers or The Ring Goes East. The proposed title for Book Three 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 Three and Four and can be left ambiguous." At this stage he planned to title the individual books. ![]() The Two Towers covers Books Three and Four. However, the novel was originally published as three separate volumes, due to post-World War II paper shortages and size and price considerations. You know, coming home, and finding things all right, though not quite the same - like old Mr Bilbo.The Lord of the Rings is composed of six "books", aside from an introduction, a prologue and six appendices. We hear about those as just went on - and not all to a good end, mind you at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end. And if they had, we shouldn't know, because they'd have been forgotten. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn't. Folk seem to have been just landed in them, usually - their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But that's not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. I used to think that they were things the wonderful folk of the stories went out and looked for, because they wanted them, because they were exciting and life was a bit dull, a kind of a sport, as you might say. Frodo: adventures, as I used to call them. The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. “We shouldn't be here at all, if we'd known more about it before we started. Frodo,' said Sam, 'you shouldn't make fun. And Frodo wouldn't have got far without Sam, would he, dad?"' Why didn't they put in more of his talk, dad? That's what I like, it makes me laugh. But you've left out one of the chief characters: Samwise the stouthearted. 'Why, Sam,' he said, 'to hear you somehow makes me as merry as if the story was already written. But Frodo did not heed them he laughed again. To Sam suddenly it seemed as if all the stones were listening and the tall rocks leaning over them. Such a sound had not been heard in those places since Sauron came to Middle-earth. 'It's saying a lot too much,' said Frodo, and he laughed, a long clear laugh from his heart. Frodo was very brave, wasn't he, dad?" "Yes, my boy, the famousest of the hobbits, and that's saying a lot." And people will say: "Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring!" And they will say: "Yes, that's one of my favourite stories. We're in one, of course, but I mean: put into words, you know, told by the fireside, or read out of a great big book with red and black letters, years and years afterwards. “Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales.
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