• The Two Towers

  • Book Two in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy
  • By: J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Narrated by: Rob Inglis
  • Length: 16 hrs and 40 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (48,373 ratings)

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The Two Towers

By: J. R. R. Tolkien
Narrated by: Rob Inglis
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The Two Towers is the second volume of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic saga, The Lord of the Rings.

The Fellowship has been forced to split up. Frodo and Sam must continue alone towards Mount Doom, where the One Ring must be destroyed. Meanwhile, at Helm’s Deep and Isengard, the first great battles of the War of the Ring take shape.

In this splendid, unabridged audio production of Tolkien’s great work, all the inhabitants of a magical universe - hobbits, elves, and wizards - spring to life. Rob Inglis’ narration has been praised as a masterpiece of audio.

©1983 Christopher R. Tolkien, Michael H.R.Tolkien, John F.R. Tolkien, and Priscilla M.A.R.Tolkien (P)1990 Recorded Books

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Finally LOTR available in 'read aloud' format

What made the experience of listening to The Two Towers the most enjoyable?

I've been searching for the Lord of the Rings read out loud -- unabridged -- for a long time, so was thrilled to find all three books suddenly available on Audible. Being able to slip my iPod out and dive into that glorious world for awhile is nothing short of a gift.

Who was your favorite character and why?

LOTR is too much of a deep classic for this question. All the characters and all their facets are the the threads woven into one rich tapestry.

What three words best describe Rob Inglis’s performance?

Don't sing songs! Rob Inglis managed to colour the audio world with decent voices for the different characters. No easy task given the numerous male roles. However, I've started to fast forward everytime he breaks into song -- as it's like chewing tin foil with the ears. This performance also sounds a little dated -- like it's coming from a 50's movie. I hope Jim Dale will one day be enticed to undertake the project.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Everything but the songs -- promise!

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Amazon, Why are you Terrible?

Lotr The Two Towers is great! It's just Amazon in their pride replacing the iconic original artwork on their store. Why is fake-Gilgalad from RoP the picture on the cover? Don't know. Is he actually in the book? He is like slightly mentioned in passing, maybe (I might be confusing this with the Appendices in RotK)

In short, don't buy this untill Amazon changes the cover art back. Is that petty? Yes, but so are they for changing it in the first place.

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Ugly Rings of Power thumbnail is insulting

Obviously the book is magnificent in all aspects. Too bad Amazon had to sully it with a thumbnail from their creatively bankrupt and intellectually insulting "Rings of Power" failure. Evil cannot create, it can only mock and corrupt that which exists.

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Take that rings of power trash art off this novel

Amazing book and listen except that Amazon has employed deceptive marketing by trying to say there Rings of Power show has anything to do with this story or the lore of Tolkien's works. Amazon doesn't have the rights to any of his books. only the appendices of the return of the king. Take that garbage marketing off the novel of the most creative writer of our time and stop defacing his books.

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Hooray for Tolkien, DOWN WITH AMAZON!

The book is fantastic, one of the all time best stories ever made! The narration is awesome, there is only one problem with this product..... the shill company of Amazon forcing there terrible "woke" narrative onto Tolkiens life work. Amazon is not doing an adaptation, it is a bastardization of an original idea. Keep your stupid political ideals out of our escapism!

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I hate this new art cover!

I have read these books for years and I absolutely love everything Tolkien has ever written. LOTR are beautifully written and far the best books you could read. But this stupid artwork makes you feel that they are trying to pull Tolkiens master works to the level of any common place fantasy written by a teenager in the early 2000s. Bring back the tradition artwork!

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would have been great

the story itself is great, the narrator is good, the problem is the background noise... telephone ringing, and a fairly obnoxious female voice that pops up repeatedly completely breaking the spell of the book

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Chapters out of order

Same with the fellowship. Book started at 2nd part of book. Oddly enough the book still works

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lots of singing and the reader doesnt hold back.

singing might be good for some. I found it incredibly annoying. I'd prefer to have read this book as oppsed to the audiobook. that way I could have skipped the singing.

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Breaking Up the Fellowship

The company formed in The Fellowship of the Ring to go south and deal with the dangerous One Ring of the Dark Lord has splintered. The second entry in J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy trilogy follows the nine members of the Fellowship as some travel west to deal with rogue wizard Saruman at his tower of Orthanc, others east toward a secret entrance to the evil land of Mordor under the tower of Cirith Ungol. Hence, The Two Towers.

If you've never read The Lord of the Rings, drop everything else you're doing and start, right now. But don't start here, read The Fellowship first. There is no way to understand this pivotal middle entry without starting at the beginning. On the other hand, you don't have to go as far back as The Hobbit. By all means, read (listen to) The Hobbit if/when you can, but do not consider it prerequisite to the LOTR trilogy.

If you've only seen the movie adaptation, The Two Towers is portrayed almost in full. There is one major departure, however, that makes reading the book feel different. Book III (each volume in the trilogy is divided into two books) follows the westward bound characters (all except Frodo and Sam), Book IV is about Frodo and Sam along with Gollum/Smeagol. The movie weaves the two concurrent story lines together.

If you've only ever read the books, I wholeheartedly recommend listening to the audio edition. Rob Inglis's reading of The Two Towers is superb, especially since he gets to do the voice(s) of Gollum and Smeagol (which if you've seen the movie you already know is a highlight, perhaps the highlight, of the story) as well as Orc dialogue and the wonderful Ents. The singing in The Fellowship that I myself did not care for is held to a minimum here (one song, maybe two), the narration focused more on voices.

Bottom line, no matter who you are, if you've read these books or not, you must listen to them. You must.

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