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. 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. The Lord of the Rings is composed of six 'books', aside from an introduction, a prologue and six appendices.

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