181 - Two Shall Be the Number of the Towers

Published: Oct. 4, 2020, 3 p.m.

And the number of the towers shall be two. Or three. Or\u2026 five? If it\u2019s not clear yet, we\u2019ll clear it up in this introduction to Book III of The Lord of the Rings, and the second volume of the not-really-a-trilogy that happens to be named after some arbitrarily chosen pair of very tall buildings. We also look back at the story so far and learn that Tolkien himself was the first person to leave Tom Bombadil out of an adaptation of his work. Plus, what we did over our summer break: including favorite moments from this year\u2019s online Oxonmoot and Mythmoot.