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The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien

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Author Biography

Name: J. R. R. Tolkien
Birth Date: January 3, 1892
Death Date: September 2, 1973
Place of Birth: Bloemfontein, South Africa
Place of Death: Bournemouth, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer, essayist, poet, editor

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Biography of J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel) Tolkien
9822 words, approx. 32.7 pages
J. R. R. Tolkien's most familiar creation, the hobbits of Middle-earth, belonged only to his private world until September 1937. Before then they were known only to his children, his great friend C. S. Lewis, and a few other people. The print run of what...
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Biography of J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel) Tolkien
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The place in fantasy literature earned by J. R. R. Tolkien is indisputable. Tolkien is directly responsible for the rising popularity of fantasy literature in the late twentieth century. While authors such as Anne McCaffrey may dominate the scene of mode...
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Biography of J. R. R. Tolkien
5343 words, approx. 17.8 pages
The driving passion of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien's literary life was to make his "fairystories" so complete in description and detail, so varied in character and action, so expansive in philosophy and religion, as to be "real." He was in every way the pe...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Two Towers Information
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<i>The Two Towers</i> is the second volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's high fantasy novel <i>The Lord of the Rings</i>. It is preceded by <i>The Fellowship of the Ring</i> and followed by <i>The Return of the...


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The New York Observer
The Two Towers
9/12/2007: 491 words, approx. 2 pages
Sandy and Joan Weill have spent $42.4 million on a penthouse in Fifteen Central Park West, according to a city deed filed on Sept. 12. That is only the third apartment sale in the new development to officially close, and the second to close for...
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Reuters North American News Service
Peter Jackson, studios agree to make Hobbit films
12/18/2007: 371 words, approx. 1 pages
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After months of bitter legal wrangling, Peter Jackson, New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc have agreed to make two movies based on the book "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien. In a statement Tuesday, the companies said Jackson, the director...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Maurice Richardson
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The Two Towers is the second volume of [Tolkien's] mammoth fairy tale, or, as some call it, heroic romance, The Lord of The Rings. It will do quite nicely as an allegorical adventure story for very leisured boys, but as anything else I am convinced it has been wildly overpraised and it is all I can do to restrain myself from shouting: Conspiracy! and slouching through the streets with a sandwichman's board inscribed in jagged paranoid scrawl in violet ink: "Adults of all ages! Unite aga...
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The Lord of the Rings : the Two Towers
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It is a summary of the book "The Two Towers" by J.R.R. Tolkien.


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