5.0 / 5
Year
1954
Publisher
George Allen & Unwin
ISBN
978-0261102361
Fiction
The Two Towers
by J.R.R. Tolkien
The story shatters into parallel threads—Helm’s Deep spectacle on one side, creepy Gollum character study on the other.
Geek’s cut
Storytelling tuned for readers who over-analyze everything: layered themes, callbacks that reward obsessive memory, and a world that keeps expanding in your head after the last page.
Deeper dive
This is where the world really feels big: different wars, different moral temperatures, all happening at once. Gollum basically becomes a walking case study in unreliable processes.
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