The Two Towers
Subtitle: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings
Series: The Lord of the Rings, #2
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 350
Copyright date: 1982
Description: The Lord of the Rings is J.R.R. Tolkien's great three-volume epic set in the imaginary world of the Third Age of Middle-earth - a world inhabited by many strange beings, including hobbits, an ancient people smaller than dwarves, cheerful, peace-loving and shy. Since its original publication, this work has caught the imagination of readers of all ages and walks of life. It is an adventure story, and adult fairy tale, a classic myth, which Michael Straight has called one of the "very few works of genius in recent literature."

In response to the widespread interest and enthusiasm evoked by The Lord of the Rings, Professor Tolkien has prepared this second edition, making a number of emendations in the text and providing a new forward, new appendices and an index. 

The Third Age of 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 peculiarly uncompounded darkness."