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(In book three, the main tower is Orthanc. Or they may be Orthanc and Minas Morgul, since that is where all the action takes place in books three and four. But they may be Minas Tirith and Minas Morgul, as the one was made to guard the East and the other the West, and were also built at the same time, making them twins. Which two, if any, are the Two Towers? In Peter Jackson’s film of the book, they are depicted as Barad-Dur and Orthanc, perhaps because of the troubled relationship between the two palantirs in each tower, easy to represent on film. The Tower of Cirith Ungol above the Morgul Pass on the northern side of the Morgul Vale.The Tower of Black Sorcery in Minas Morgul Vale, on the other side of the border from Minas Tirith.The Tower of Ecthelion, the White Tower of the city of Minas Tirith, on the Western border of Mordor.Barad-dûr, the fortress of Sauron in the heart of Mordor in the East.Orthanc, the black tower of Isengard in the West, the stronghold of the wizard Saruman.And the Wikipedia page on The Lord of the Rings even gives us an answer, saying that "the title of the novel refers to the story's main antagonist, the Dark Lord Sauron".Įqually, we can ask what the ‘Two Towers’ in the Lord of the Rings are, since there are so many towers in the book. For example, we can ask who the phrase "The Lord of the Rings" refers to. here) there is a perfectly valid sense of 'refer to' where it takes an fictional accusative. That's a good question which I can't answer right now. But let's begin with a valid question about reference in fiction. David Brightly asks "how sometimes my mental file coheres with yours sufficiently to give rise to the sense of reference to a single external object".