The Lord of the Rings books III and IV, and as such the eponymous towers could be either Orthanc and Barad-dûr, or Minas Tirith and Barad-dûr, or Orthanc and Cirith Ungol. Tolkien was initially opposed to titles being given to each two-book volume, preferring instead the use of book titles: e.g. "The Lord of the Rings": Vol. 1, "The Ring Sets Out" and "The Ring Goes South"; Vol. 2, "The Treason of Isengard" and "The Ring Goes East"; Vol. 3, "The War of the Ring" and "The End of the Third Age". However these individual book titles were later scrapped, and after pressure from his
The History of The Lord of the Rings Ring"; and Book VI, "The End of the Third Age". The title "The Return of the Shadow" was a discarded title for Volume I. Three of the titles of the volumes of "The History of The Lord of the Rings" were also used as book titles for the seven-volume edition of "The Lord of the Rings": "The Treason of Isengard" for Book III, "The War of the Ring" for Book V, and "The End of the Third Age" for Book VI. There is an inscription in Fëanorian characters (Tengwar, an alphabet Tolkien devised for the High-Elves) on the title pages