Originally posted by: lordjedi
I'm not sure about the title for ROTK, but I know the title of TTT is ambiguous. Even Tolkien didn't really know which two towers the title referred to. Was it Minus Tirith and Minus Morgul or was it Saruman and Sauron's towers (the proper names are escaping me at the moment)? To some it's the former, to others the latter.

He was pretty sure it referred to Orthanc and Minas Morgul in the end. They are the two towers that actually figure prominently to the characters in the book.

Anyways, about Lord of the Rings, Tolkien wrote it to be a published novel from the beginning. That doesn't mean that making money was more important to him than the world he created or the aesthetics of his stories though.