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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
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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
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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...
 


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The Two Towers is the second volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's high fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings. It is preceded by The Fellowship of the Ring and followed by 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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Peter Jackson to produce `The Hobbit'
12/18/2007: 334 words, approx. 1 pages
Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema have reached agreement to make J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit," a planned prequel to the blockbuster trilogy "The Lord of the Rings."Jackson, who directed "Rings," will serve as executive producer for "The Hobbit." A director for the prequel films has...
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Carnegie Hall tenants allege nepotism
12/17/2007: 806 words, approx. 3 pages
The tenants of studios high above Carnegie Hall were already angry about plans to evict them and gut part of the world famous concert building.But they turned furious when they found out the son-in-law of Carnegie Hall's chairman and major benefactor, Sanford Weill, had been...
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NYC Mayor visits Flight 93 site
9/23/2007: 410 words, approx. 1 pages
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg visited the Flight 93 crash site before stopping in Pittsburgh on Sunday as part of a fundraising tour for a memorial and museum to commemorate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.Several hundred people gathered near the city's baseball stadium, PNC Park,...
 


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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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