The Two Towers (Lord of the Rings, Part Two)

Black cloth, 352 pp, red image of eye surrounded by a circle of runes on front board. Front board starting, webbing visible after front end paper. Spine a bit sunned, corners bumped, minor edge wear, owner's name on front and back paste downs. Jacket in plastic protective wraps, not price clipped, spine sunned, some edge wear and chipping especially at top and base of spine. Overall a solid copy. ; Two color map of Middle Earth tipped in to rear end paper. ; Lord of the Rings; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 352 pages; "In the First Part of The Lord of the Rings, 111-year-old Bilbo Baggins passed along his magical ring to his orphaned nephew, Frodo - unwittingly setting its original owner, the horrible Gollum, on his trail. Lest the ring fall into evil hands, Frodo sought to destroy it at the Mountain of Fire in the enemy land of Mordor. He convened the Companions of the Ring to carry out this perilous mission, but his brave band has been scattered, beset by orc-soldiers, and in the Second Part, as 'the great Darkness' descends, Frodo himself has mysteriously disappeared. This second part now tells how each of the members of the Fellowship of the Ring fared, after the breaking of their fellowship, until the coming of the great Darkness and the outbreak of the War of the Ring.".…