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 …
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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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The Two Towers
Paperback, 352 pages
English language
Published March 4, 1994 by Houghton Mifflin.
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The Two Towers
Paperback, 449 pages
English language
Published March 4, 1999 by HarperCollins Publishers.
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The Two Towers
Paperback, 322 pages
English language
Published March 4, 2003 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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The Two Towers
Hardcover, 352 pages
English language
Published March 4, 1993 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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The Two Towers
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Published Aug. 13, 2005 by HarperCollins Publishers.
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The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2)
mass market paperback, 416 pages
English language
Published Aug. 12, 1986 by Del Rey.
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Die zwei Türme
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Published Aug. 4, 2012 by Klett-Cotta.
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- 978-3-608-93982-8Copied ISBN!
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- 813430486
Le Seigneur des Anneaux, tome 2 : Les deux tours
mass market paperback, 574 pages
french language
Published Feb. 1, 1999 by Gallimard Jeunesse, GALLIMARD JEUNE.
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The Two Towers
Paperback, 448 pages
English language
Published March 4, 2020 by Mariner Books | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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- 978-0-358-38024-5Copied ISBN!
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- 1288028253
The Two Towers
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Published April 4, 2009 by HarperCollins.
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Les deux tours
336 pages
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Published 1988 by Gallimard.
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The Two Towers
Hardcover, 352 pages
English language
Published March 4, 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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The Two Towers
mass market paperback, 464 pages
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Published March 4, 2012 by HarperCollins.
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Le Seigneur des Anneaux 2 - Les Deux Tours
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Published March 1, 2005 by Pocket, French and European Publications Inc.
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LE SEIGNEUR DES ANNEAUX T2
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Published July 18, 1993 by Pocket, Pocket / Pocket n° 2658.
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