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Lotesse
10-03-2005, 12:46 PM
The Gaffer it was, Rconsole! It's all yours. :)
Rconsole
10-04-2005, 07:30 AM
Ok what were the two towers after which the book was named?
(according to Tolkien)
Spock
10-04-2005, 11:39 AM
Ok what were the two towers after which the book was named?
(according to Tolkien)

Baradur and Ornthac? :confused:
Telcontar_Dunedain
10-04-2005, 11:43 AM
Cirith Ungol and Orthanc?

This thread has reached 1000 posts+. I suggest whoever posts the next question does it a new thread.
Rconsole
10-04-2005, 03:48 PM
Nope and Nope, Orthanc is one of them though
Lotesse
10-04-2005, 03:55 PM
Tolkien said:
"I am not at all happy about the title 'the Two Towers'. It must if there is any real reference in it to Vol II refer to Orthanc and the Tower of Cirith Ungol. But since there is so much made of the basic opposition of the Dark Tower and Minas Tirith, that seems very misleading."
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien No 143, dated 1954

Tolkien also considered at least five other combinations of the towers of Barad-dûr, Cirith Ungol, Minas Morgul, Minas Tirith and Orthanc, and it seems that he never settled on a definitive identity for the eponymous towers.
Spock
10-04-2005, 03:59 PM
Lotesse, where does it say that in the book? My copy doesn't have it in the introduction or the synopsis.
Lotesse
10-04-2005, 04:03 PM
Say what? You mean - no, that's from "Letters," if you're tryna gently tell me to just answer the question as put forth within the text of The Two Towers, well, i WOULD but I can't find it yet. :o Still lookin'.

I always thought the two towers were Orthanc and Minas Morgul.
Spock
10-04-2005, 04:05 PM
No, no, I thought you were stating where the answer was and I couldn't find it. It will be interesting to see where *in the book* Rconsole says it is.
Lotesse
10-04-2005, 04:19 PM
Indeed. It will be - Rconsole, you around right now?
Rconsole
10-04-2005, 05:21 PM
I always thought the two towers were Orthanc and Minas Morgul.

that's what I was looking for

and I wasn't aware that questions had to be *from the book*

Here is an intro that tolkien wrote for the book

The second part is called The Two Towers,
since the events recounted in it are dominated by Orthanc,
the citadel of Saruman, and the fortress of Minas Morgul
that guards the secret entrance to Mordor…
so technically it could have been either...

I based my question off of this (http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/t/th/the_two_towers.htm) page, and I also found this (http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/preview/GenerateContent?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=19079&CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE=0&MENU_ID=124)
page apparently on one of the original covers of the books Orthanc and Minas Morgul were featured

So Lotesse you gave the correct answer your go :)
Lotesse
10-04-2005, 05:53 PM
O.K., thanx Rconsole, but in the future, please remember we are supposed to create trivia questions from the CONTENTS of the actual story writings of Lord of the Rings, not from the introcdution or whatever. Well, now you know! :)

Who was it who had his bow cocked and ready to shoot Smeagol for fishing in Henneth Annun?
Telcontar_Dunedain
10-05-2005, 12:48 PM
Anborn?
Lotesse
10-05-2005, 12:54 PM
Mais oui, TD! :) It's all yours...
Spock
10-06-2005, 07:57 AM
Anborn?


Lotesse confirmed that Telcontar Dunedain was correct. He now posts the next question
Valandil
10-06-2005, 08:07 AM
Lotesse confirmed that Telcontar Dunedain was correct. He now posts the next question

In the Part II thread, of course.

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