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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''''The Two Towers''''' is the second of three volumes in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. It is preceded by ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' and followed by ''[[The Return of the King]]''<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. ''The Two Towers'' was originally released on [[11 November]] [[1954]] in the United Kingdom (3250 copies plus 1000 for the American edition)</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''''The Two Towers''''' is the second of three volumes in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. It is preceded by ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' and followed by ''[[The Return of the King]]''. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">While Tolkien intended the work to be published as one volume, and believing that it </del>was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">naturally divided in six "books", </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Allen and Unwin</del>]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">announced it would be more practical to be released in three volumes. Initially Tolkien proposed the title '''''The Ring in the Shadow'''''<ref name=l136>{{L|136}}</ref> and then '''''The Shadow Lengthens'''''.<ref name=l139>{{L|139}}</ref></del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''The Two Towers'' </ins>was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">originally released on </ins>[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">11 November</ins>]] [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1954</ins>]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in the United Kingdom. 3</ins>,<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">250 copies were printed </ins>in the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">first UK edition, with another 1,000 </ins>for the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">American edition</ins>.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The volume is divided into two books, Book III and IV, tentatively titled by Tolkien as ''</del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Treason of Isengard</del>]]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and ''The Ring goes East''<ref name=l136/> although these titles weren't used </del>in the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">publication. Another abandoned title </del>for <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Book IV was ''The Journey of </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ring-bearers''.<ref>{{HM|RC}}, p</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">xxxii</ref></del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:J.R.R. Tolkien - The Two Towers.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Tolkien's design for the dust-jacket of ''The Two Towers'' as submitted to Allen & Unwin.]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:J.R.R. Tolkien - The Two Towers.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Tolkien's design for the dust-jacket of ''The Two Towers'' as submitted to Allen & Unwin.]]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">While </del>Tolkien intended the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">work </del>to be published as one volume<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">believing </del>that it was naturally divided <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in </del>six "books", [[Allen and Unwin]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">decided it would be more practical </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">be released </del>in three volumes <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </del>sold separately<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">; </del>Tolkien considered the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">publication in </del>three volumes <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as </del>artificial<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, with </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">widely divergent </del>Books III and IV <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">having to </del>be published together.<ref name=l136/> </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Tolkien intended <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''The Lord of </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Rings'' </ins>to be published as one volume and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">believed </ins>that it was naturally divided <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">into </ins>six "books<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</ins>" <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However, at the urging of his publishers</ins>, [[Allen and Unwin]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, he agreed </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">release the work </ins>in three volumes <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to be </ins>sold separately<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Even so, </ins>Tolkien considered the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">division into </ins>three volumes <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to be </ins>artificial <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and was dissatisfied that </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"not really related" </ins>Books III and IV <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">would have </ins>be published together.<ref name=<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"</ins>l136<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">">{{L|136}}<</ins>/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ref</ins>> </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">On 24 March [[1953]], Tolkien wrote to [[Rayner Unwin]] with ideas for the titles of each volume. At that time, he suggested that each volume be named for the two books it contained. For the middle volume, this was "''The Lord of the Rings'' Vol. II: ''The Treason of Isengard'', and ''The Ring goes East''." As an alternative in case Unwin found the previous to be unsuitable, Tolkien suggested "''The Ring in the Shadow''."<ref name="l136" /></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">A galley proof of the combined table of contents for the three volumes of ''The Lord of the Rings'' from around that time includes a list of contents that gives the title of the middle volume as "Vol. II ''The Treason of Isengard'' and ''The Journey of the Ring-bearers''," being a combination of the then-current draft titles for Books III and IV.<ref name="l136n">{{L|136}}, note 1</ref><ref>{{HM|RC}}, p. xxxii</ref> None of these individual book titles would ultimately be used, but decades later, "''[[The Treason of Isengard]]''" was recycled as the title of the seventh volume of ''[[The History of Middle-earth]]''.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Still</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">each of </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">three volumes needed its own </del>title<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. By mid-[[1953]], Tolkien was still considering various draft names, including </del>'''''The Ring in the Shadow''<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'''<ref name=l136>{{L|136}}</ref> and '''</del>''The Shadow <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Lengthens'''</del>''.<ref name=<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">l139>{{L|139}}</ref><ref name=</del>hs>{{webcite|author=[[Wayne G. Hammond]] & [[Christina Scull]]|articleurl=https://www.hammondandscull.com/papers/Hammond_Scull_Scholars_Forum.html#r50|articlename=Truth or Consequences: A Cautionary Tale of Tolkien Studies|website=HS|accessed=6 January 2022}}, footnote 50</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">On 28 July 1953</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Unwin wrote to Tolkien proposing that </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">overall </ins>title ''<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Lord of the Rings</ins>'<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">' be abandoned and that the second volume be named either "</ins>''The Ring in the Shadow''<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">" or "</ins>''The Shadow <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and the Ring</ins>''.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"</ins><ref name=<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"</ins>hs<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"</ins>>{{webcite|author=[[Wayne G. Hammond]] & [[Christina Scull]]|articleurl=https://www.hammondandscull.com/papers/Hammond_Scull_Scholars_Forum.html#r50|articlename=Truth or Consequences: A Cautionary Tale of Tolkien Studies|website=HS|accessed=6 January 2022}}, footnote 50<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ref> Tolkien replied on 8 August 1953, stating his opposition to having individual volume titles without an overall title. By that time, Tolkien had forgotten the volume titles he had sent in his letter of 24 March, and made a new suggestion of "''The Shadow Lengthens''" for volume two.<ref name="l139">{{L|139}}</ins></ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The ambiguous title "''The Two Towers''" was the the best he could think. He settled </del>on <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it no later than </del>[[17 August]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</del>1953<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">on which date he </del>wrote to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Rayner </del>Unwin<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] with his names for </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">three volumes as they would ultimately </del>be <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">printed</del>.<ref name=OneForty>{{L|140}}</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Finally, </ins>on [[17 August]] 1953, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Unwin met with Tolkien in person; later that day, Tolkien </ins>wrote to Unwin<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, partially to summarize and put to paper the results of their discussion. This letter contains Tolkien's final suggestions that the overall title ''The Lord of </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Rings'' be retained and that volume two </ins>be <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">titled ''The Two Towers''</ins>.<ref name=<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"</ins>OneForty<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"</ins>>{{L|140}}</ref<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">> Hammond & Scull note that it is unclear as to whether these volume names were first suggested by Tolkien or Unwin.<ref name=hs/</ins>></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>At that time, the identities of the titular towers themselves were unclear in Tolkien's mind. In his letters<ref name=OneForty/> and sketches,<ref name=hs/> Tolkien considered several sets of towers, including [[Minas Tirith]] and the [[Barad-dûr]], and even the possibility of leaving the matter ambiguous. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Any pair </del>from a set of five towers in the story could plausibly fit the title: [[Tower of Cirith Ungol|Cirith Ungol]], [[Orthanc]], Minas Tirith, Barad-dûr, and [[Minas Morgul]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>At that time, the identities of the titular towers themselves were unclear in Tolkien's mind. In his letters<ref name=OneForty/> and sketches,<ref name=hs/> Tolkien considered several sets of towers, including [[Minas Tirith]] and the [[Barad-dûr]], and even the possibility of leaving the matter ambiguous. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Most pairs </ins>from a set of five towers in the story could plausibly fit the title: [[Tower of Cirith Ungol|Cirith Ungol]], [[Orthanc]], Minas Tirith, Barad-dûr, and [[Minas Morgul]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Tolkien settled on the final identities of the towers no later than 23 February [[1954]], on which date he sent to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</del>Allen <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">& </del>Unwin<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </del>this note, which appears at the end of most editions of ''The Fellowship of the Ring'':<ref name=hs/></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Tolkien settled on the final identities of the towers no later than 23 February [[1954]], on which date he sent to Allen <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </ins>Unwin this note, which appears at the end of most editions of ''The Fellowship of the Ring'':<ref name=hs/></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">When </del>it was decided <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">that ''The Lord of the Rings'' </del>would be <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">published </del>in three volumes <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to be </del>sold separately, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it became necessary for each volume </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">have its own title</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">By mid-[[1953]], Tolkien was still considering various draft names, including "''The Treason of Isengard'', and ''The Ring Goes East''" and "''The Shadow Lengthens'',"</del><ref name=<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hs>Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull, [https://www.hammondandscull.com/papers/Hammond_Scull_Scholars_Forum.html#r50 ''Truth or Consequences: A Cautionary Tale of Tolkien Studies''] ([https:/</del>/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">web.archive.org/web/20210309061236/https://www.hammondandscull.com/papers/Hammond_Scull_Scholars_Forum.html#r50 archive]), footnote 50</ref</del>></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">While Tolkien intended the work to be published as one volume, and believing that </ins>it was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">naturally divided in six "books", [[Allen and Unwin]] </ins>decided <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it </ins>would be <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">more practical to be released </ins>in three volumes <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </ins>sold separately<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">; Tolkien considered the publication in three volumes as artificial</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with the widely divergent Books III and IV having </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">be published together</ins>.<ref name=<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">l136</ins>/> </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Tolkien considered that the natural division </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">tale was in six "books", and the publication in </del>three volumes <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for practical purposes </del>was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">artificial</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">widely divergent Books III </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">IV having to be published together;</del><ref name=<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">l136</del>/> <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </del>ambiguous title "''The Two Towers''" was the the best he could think. He settled on it no later than [[17 August]] [[1953]], on which date he wrote to [[Rayner Unwin]] with his names for the three volumes as they would ultimately be printed.<ref name=OneForty>{{L|140}}</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Still, each </ins>of the three volumes <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">needed its own title. By mid-[[1953]], Tolkien </ins>was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">still considering various draft names</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">including '''''The Ring in </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Shadow'''''<ref name=l136>{{L|136}}</ref> </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'''''The Shadow Lengthens'''''.<ref name=l139>{{L|139}}</ref></ins><ref name=<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hs>{{webcite|author=[[Wayne G. Hammond]] & [[Christina Scull]]|articleurl=https://www.hammondandscull.com/papers/Hammond_Scull_Scholars_Forum.html#r50|articlename=Truth or Consequences: A Cautionary Tale of Tolkien Studies|website=HS|accessed=6 January 2022}}, footnote 50<</ins>/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ref</ins>></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''''The Two Towers''''' is the second of three volumes in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. It is preceded by ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' and followed by ''[[The Return of the King]]''. ''The Two Towers'' was originally released on [[11 November]] [[1954]] in the United Kingdom.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''''The Two Towers''''' is the second of three volumes in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. It is preceded by ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' and followed by ''[[The Return of the King]]''. ''The Two Towers'' was originally released on [[11 November]] [[1954]] in the United Kingdom <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(3250 copies plus 1000 for the American edition)</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Sagehttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=The_Two_Towers&diff=364311&oldid=prevSage at 17:26, 9 December 20222022-12-09T17:26:19Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>While Tolkien intended the work to be published as one volume, and believing that it was naturally divided in six "books", [[Allen and Unwin]] announced it would be more practical to be released in three volumes. Initially Tolkien proposed the title '''''The Ring in the Shadow'''''<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</del><ref name=l136>{{L|136}}</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>While Tolkien intended the work to be published as one volume, and believing that it was naturally divided in six "books", [[Allen and Unwin]] announced it would be more practical to be released in three volumes. Initially Tolkien proposed the title '''''The Ring in the Shadow'''''<ref name=l136>{{L|136<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">}}</ref> and then '''''The Shadow Lengthens'''''.<ref name=l139>{{L|139</ins>}}</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:J.R.R. Tolkien - The Two Towers.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Tolkien's design for the dust-jacket of ''The Two Towers'' as submitted to Allen & Unwin.]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:J.R.R. Tolkien - The Two Towers.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Tolkien's design for the dust-jacket of ''The Two Towers'' as submitted to Allen & Unwin.]]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When it was decided that ''The Lord of the Rings'' would be published in three volumes to be sold separately, it became necessary for each volume to have its own title. By mid-[[1953]], Tolkien was still considering various draft names, including "''The Treason of Isengard'', and ''The Ring Goes East''" and "''The Shadow Lengthens'',"<ref name=hs>Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull, [https://www.hammondandscull.com/papers/Hammond_Scull_Scholars_Forum.html#r50 ''Truth or Consequences: A Cautionary Tale of Tolkien Studies''] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20210309061236/https://www.hammondandscull.com/papers/Hammond_Scull_Scholars_Forum.html#r50 archive]), footnote 50</ref> <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but he settled on </del>"''The Two Towers''" no later than 17 August 1953, on which date he wrote to [[Rayner Unwin]] with his names for the three volumes as they would ultimately be printed.<ref name=OneForty>{{L|140}}</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When it was decided that ''The Lord of the Rings'' would be published in three volumes to be sold separately, it became necessary for each volume to have its own title. By mid-[[1953]], Tolkien was still considering various draft names, including "''The Treason of Isengard'', and ''The Ring Goes East''" and "''The Shadow Lengthens'',"<ref name=hs>Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull, [https://www.hammondandscull.com/papers/Hammond_Scull_Scholars_Forum.html#r50 ''Truth or Consequences: A Cautionary Tale of Tolkien Studies''] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20210309061236/https://www.hammondandscull.com/papers/Hammond_Scull_Scholars_Forum.html#r50 archive]), footnote 50</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Tolkien considered that the natural division of the tale was in six "books", and the publication in three volumes for practical purposes was artificial, with the widely divergent Books III and IV having to be published together;<ref name=l136/> the ambiguous title </ins>"''The Two Towers''" <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was the the best he could think. He settled on it </ins>no later than <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>17 August<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] [[</ins>1953<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>, on which date he wrote to [[Rayner Unwin]] with his names for the three volumes as they would ultimately be printed.<ref name=OneForty>{{L|140}}</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The volume is divided into two books, Book III and IV<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, tentatively titled by Tolkien as ''[[The Treason of Isengard]]'', and ''The Ring goes East''<ref name=l136/> although these titles weren't used in the publication</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Title and structure==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Title and structure==</div></td></tr>
</table>Sage