Initially Tolkien proposed the title The Ring in the Shadow and then The Shadow Lengthens. While Tolkien intended the work to be published as one volume, and believing that it was naturally divided in six "books", Allen and Unwin announced it would be more practical to be released in three volumes. The Two Towers was originally released on 11 November 1954 in the United Kingdom (3250 copies plus 1000 for the American edition). It is preceded by The Fellowship of the Ring and followed by The Return of the King. The Two Towers is the second of three volumes in The Lord of the Rings. Hardcover paperback deluxe-edition audio-book For a list of other meanings, see Two Towers (disambiguation). Grond also appears in the video games The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth, and The Lord of the Rings Online.The name Two Towers refers to more than one character, item or concept.Here the Great Beasts that tow it into position are Oliphaunts. In the 1980 animated Return of the King film, Grond is depicted as drooling acid in one shot, and its eyes glow red. As the Host of Mordor and its allies watched it approaching Minas Tirith, they could be heard chanting its name: "Grond! Grond! Grond! Grond!" It is much like its portrayal in the book, as it strikes Minas Tirith's gates four times before breaking through. Gothmog refers to it as both "Grond" and "the wolf's head" in the film in the Extended Edition of The Return of the King, he summons it after a failed attempt to breach Minas Tirith with a standard battering ram. The ram's wolf design is extended, with the whole battering ram carved to resemble a great wolf. In Peter Jackson's film The Return of the King, Grond has fire spewing from its carved jaws and the Great Beasts pulling it are four huge rhinoceros-like creatures (in the book only called the " Great beasts"). Grond Approaches the Gates of Minas Tirith Portrayal in adaptations The Lord of the Rings film trilogy " Bring up the wolf's head." - Gothmog As if stricken by some blasting spell it burst asunder: there was a blast of searing lightning, and the doors tumbled in riven fragments to the ground. And suddenly upon the last stroke the Gate of Gondor broke. Aided by the "spells of ruin" laid on it during its forging in Mordor, and by the Witch-king of Angmar during the Siege, Grond smashed open the formidable Great Gate of Minas Tirith with just three or four blows. The creatures pulling it would occasionally go mad and run through the battlefield, trampling anything and anyone underfoot. It was operated by a team of great beasts, escorted by a band of Orcs, and several Trolls were needed to utilize it. Grond was said to be 60 feet high, 150 feet long, and as thick around as an enormous tree, making it much larger than any other such battering ram in Middle-earth. It shared its name, in homage, with the "Hammer of the Underworld," a great mace wielded by Morgoth, Sauron's former master. Grond was forged in Mordor by Smithies of Barad-dûr during the final years of the Third Age, specifically for use by the army besieging the city of Minas Tirith in Gondor.
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