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A review by houseoflusos
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
5.0
The Two Towers opens in an incredible way, with the fall of one the best characters in the story, whose last words are: "I have failed".
I'm not yet sure how I feel about the structure of the book, since we get Aragorn's "POV" in the first half, and Sam and Frodo's in the second half. I would've preferred these two POVs to come one after the other throughout the book, but yeah.
Again, we get more word building. It's amazing how real this world feels. Sam was pretty badass in this book towards the end, as we all know, he's the real hero! The description of Shelob is so good, talk about inspiring fear.
The passage I enjoyed the most, after Boromir's chapter, would be the clash between Saruman and Gandalf's band. It's crazy how the only one who knows who/what Saruman really is, is Gandalf, yet all the characters present feel these two characters are something Higher. Tolkien managed to portray power through Saruman's speech and voice really well in this chapter.
4.5 stars
I'm not yet sure how I feel about the structure of the book, since we get Aragorn's "POV" in the first half, and Sam and Frodo's in the second half. I would've preferred these two POVs to come one after the other throughout the book, but yeah.
Again, we get more word building. It's amazing how real this world feels. Sam was pretty badass in this book towards the end, as we all know, he's the real hero! The description of Shelob is so good, talk about inspiring fear.
The passage I enjoyed the most, after Boromir's chapter, would be the clash between Saruman and Gandalf's band. It's crazy how the only one who knows who/what Saruman really is, is Gandalf, yet all the characters present feel these two characters are something Higher. Tolkien managed to portray power through Saruman's speech and voice really well in this chapter.
4.5 stars