[OT] Stupid, stinking humans...

[Vargo]

Quoted from the closing of The Fellowship of the Ring...

Speaking of The Two Towers, I never actually got which two towers the title reffered to. Anybody care to enlighten me?

This is the Houghton Mifflin hardcover, republished in 1993, if anybody is curious. The last lines in the book are thus:

Here ends the first part of the history of the War of the Ring.
The second part is called The Two Towers, since the events recounted in it are dominated by Orthanc, the citadel of Saruman, and the fortress of Minas Morgul that guards the secret entrance to Mordor; it tells of the deeds and perils of all the members of the now sundered fellowship, until the coming of the Great Darkness.

 

[Quickbeam]

I weep for humanity.

Cthulhu, take me now.

I couldn't have said it any better than this.

As for the actual towers referred to in the title, I'm glad that Vargo found that blurb. I've always been certain that Minas Morgul was one of the towers, but couldn't settle my mind on the other.

 

[Nareau]

Have you read all the comments?

Some of them are pretty darn funny.

 

[Wikidogre]

That is the worst thing i have ever read! my god, i tried not to believe that thier where actual people out thier like this! these are more than likely people who have never read the books in thier life.

I now feel dumber for reading that!

 

[Nightfall]

Good thing I didn't read this. Of all the ridulous things! My god!
Personally it's people that make we want to say "Well I guess not all the stupid people died on Sept 11. It's pity you made it."

And while I'm at it, this "attack" wasn't made against Amercia, nor a SYMBOL of America. It was made against CONSUMERISM. It would be different if they hit the Statue of Liberty or hit the Washington/Lincoln memorial. People are so damn silly and paraniod, makes me feel less a freak. And that's kind of sad.

 

[Hand of Evil]

PCism at its worst.

Don't get me wrong but I have a feeling that 9/11 will be a holiday before it is all said and done.

 

[gubaru]

However I think we can all agree that it DOES NOT refer to the World Trade Center attacks seeing as how they took place 50 years after the book was written.

The guy who wrote the petition even acknowldges this.

I think that was the "We're hosting the petition for this crackpot but we want to make sure everyone knows we think he's a crackpot" disclaimer from Petition Online.

 

[drothgery]

Good thing I didn't read this. Of all the ridulous things! My god!
Personally it's people that make we want to say "Well I guess not all the stupid people died on Sept 11. It's pity you made it."

And while I'm at it, this "attack" wasn't made against Amercia, nor a SYMBOL of America. It was made against CONSUMERISM. It would be different if they hit the Statue of Liberty or hit the Washington/Lincoln memorial. People are so damn silly and paraniod, makes me feel less a freak. And that's kind of sad.

I'm not sure how you fit the attack on the Pentagon into this worldview.

 

[Lady Dragon]

well I guess we will have to change the name of the 9th month of the year too.After all to the name september 11 is now a scared day we can't ever have another one.

Maybe someone else needs to start a petition on how many people DON'T want to change the title of a classic novel.

 

[Gez]

I've always assumed that it referred to Minas Tirith (which as I remember means "tower of the sun"), and Minas Morgul ("tower of death").

Actually, Minas Morgul means "tower of sorcery". And it was built to be Minas Anor, "tower of the moon".