"The Ringll be found, and therell be no more songs."
The Two Towers, first published in 1954, 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 King. The volume's title is ambiguous, as five towers are named in the narrative, and Tolkien himself gave conflicting identifications of the two towers. The narrative is interlaced, allowing Tol
"Many of those trees were my friends, creatures I had known from nut and acorn; many had voices of their own that are lost for ever now. And there are wastes of stump and bramble where once there were singing groves. I have been idle. I have let things slip. It must stop!"
"I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying."
"Learn now the lore of Living Creatures! First name the four, the free peoples: Eldest of all, the elf-children; Dwarf the delver, dark are his houses; Ent the earthborn, old as mountains; Man the mortal, master of horses"
"[At Aragorns mention of their pursuit of his friends the Halflings, a rider, Eothain, laughs and says in disbelief:] Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight? [Aragorn responds] A man may do both. For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time....." Time is pressing, said the rider, not heeding Aragorn."
"Behold, I am not Gandalf the Grey, whom you betrayed. I am Gandalf the White, who has returned from death. You have no colour now, and I cast you from the order and from the Council."
"Yes, I am white now, said Gandalf. Indeed I am Saruman, one might almost say, Saruman as he should have been."