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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
by J. R. R. Tolkien
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Remember the journey?
With the Fellowship divided, Tolkien follows separate journeys through Rohan and toward Mordor. Place events where they appear in the book's narrative; its shifts between groups make remembering the reading order part of the challenge.
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Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli place Boromir’s body in a Lórien boat and send it down the Anduin.
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About 0% through the book. The surviving companions lacked sufficient time to bury Boromir or raise a cairn after finding him mortally wounded following the Uruk-hai attack. Legolas and Aragorn sing a lament for Boromir as the boat moves away, their song invoking the voices of three winds.
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