The Two Towers

J.R.R. Tolkien

Sep 2012 · Lord of the Rings Book 2 · Recorded Books · Narrated by Rob Inglis

About this audiobook

Continuing the epic tale begun in The Fellowship of the Ring.
The Fellowship is scattered. Some prepare for war against the Dark Lord.
Some fight against the treachery of the corrupt wizard Saruman. Only Frodo and Sam are left to take the accursed Ring to be destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom.
Mount Doom lies in the very heart of the Dark Lord's realm. Their only guide on the perilous journey is Gollum, a deceitful and obsessive creature who once possessed the Ring and longs to wield its power once again.
As dark forces assemble, the fate of Middle-earth rests with two lonely hobbits—but is Gollum leading them to their deaths?
"Among the greatest works of imaginative fiction of the twentieth century."—Sunday Telegraph

Ratings and reviews

The Silmarillion is an absolutely sublime tale, told by a master storyteller in Tolkien. Moreover this audio version is perfectly paced and is a great help when looking at the text e.g., for help pronouncing names and places. I did not want it to end -- I stretched it out as far as I could, but the story proved too tempting that I had to finish it. A masterpiece of literature.

The second part of the most wonderful fantasy story ever written and narrated very well by Rob Inglis here, would recommend to anyone that enjoys fantasy reading as this is as good as it gets!

The Bob Inglis version of LOTR and the Hobbit are the best audio versions done so far. If you love Tolkien's stories, then these are the ultimate audio book versions of them.

About the author

A writer of fantasies, Tolkien, a professor of language and literature at Oxford University, was always intrigued by early English and the imaginative use of language. In his greatest story, the trilogy The Lord of the Rings (1954--56), Tolkien invented a language with vocabulary, grammar, syntax, even poetry of its own. Though readers have created various possible allegorical interpretations, Tolkien has said: "It is not about anything but itself. (Certainly it has no allegorical intentions, general, particular or topical, moral, religious or political.)" In The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962), Tolkien tells the story of the "master of wood, water, and hill," a jolly teller of tales and singer of songs, one of the multitude of characters in his romance, saga, epic, or fairy tales about his country of the Hobbits. Tolkien was also a formidable medieval scholar, as evidenced by his work, Beowulf: The Monster and the Critics (1936) and his edition of Anciene Wisse: English Text of the Anciene Riwle. Among his works published posthumously, are The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún and The Fall of Arthur, which was edited by his son, Christopher. In 2013, his title, The Hobbit (Movie Tie-In) made The New York Times Best Seller List.