This is a weekly meme created by Books by Proxy, but up-kept by Lynn’s Book Blog.
“When she was a child, the witch locked her away in a tower that had neither doors nor stairs.”
This weeks theme: A cover featuring a tower.
I made the mistake of blog hopping before writing my post today and I saw that both The Bibliosanctum and Books, Bones, and Buffy chose Uprooted this week. I LOVE Uprooted and now I really want to use that as my choice, but I had only ever seen one cover and didn’t realize there was a tower on that cover, and I never would have chosen it myself. So, I will choose something else but I want to give a shout out too those two for their awesome book choice!
My Choice: The Two Towers
Covers:
Houghton Mifflin 2012 | Harper Collins 1999 | Houghton Mifflin 1999 |Mariner 2003
Ballantine 1965 | Mariner 2005 | Minotauro 2001 | Del Rey 1986
Harper Collins 2012 | Harper Collins 2001 | Houghton Mifflin 1988 | Ballantine 1984
Martins Fontes 2000 | Houghton Mifflin 2001 | Ballantine 1977 | Unwin 1981
Klett Cotta 2013 | Unwin 1974 | Ballantine 1973 | Bompiani 2001
Harper Collins 2013 | Del Rey 2000 | نهضة مصر 2009 | Del Rey 1986
Harper Collins 2002 | Houghton Mifflin 2002 | Allen & Unwin 1966 | Mladá fronta 1991
There are a LOT of covers for this book! I didn’t even include them all! I picked the first 28 unique ish ones from goodreads. There are a lot of good ones, but here are my 4 favorites:
It is super hard to pick just one!! I really like all four and they are all really different! I think I am going to have to go with the third one, because it feels the most Tolkien-eske, but the fourth one is a close second.
Which one do you like best? I included the publishers this week because there are so many covers! Have you read The Two Towers?
Update: Book Wraiths and Every Day Should Be Tuesday also chose The Two Towers! (I promise I didn’t see their posts before I picked it!) Go check out their posts too! They both featured some really cool covers that aren’t listed above! I think my new favorite is one that Book Wraith’s found:
Perfectly Tolerable 
I really like the red and the green ones from your final four.
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The green one is definitely the most fun cover out of all of them! If I hadn’t read the book I prolly would have picked the green as my fav, but it doesn’t really fit the mood, if that makes sense?
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WOW I had no idea so many covers existed for this book!!!
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Its ridiculous how many covers there are!!!
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I love that you included other languages! Super cool. Imagine doing this again in 15 years, they’ll probably at least 25 more covers by then.
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There are 485 editions on goodreads! That is 17 pages. I only pulled covers from the first two pages. There were some duplicates and a lot of similar ones, but there are countless other covers I didn’t get too. I am sure there will be lots more covers in 15 years, but I wouldn’t be able to tell because I didn’t even look at all the covers that are currently out! 😂
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I do like the Harper Collins 2012 ad 2001 though I know people hate movie covers. 🙂
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Those ones are very subtle movie covers (mainly because they don’t have the actors faces on them!) but I don’t mind movie covers in general, especially if I liked the movie!
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There are so many good ones for this book, I can’t choose! You’re right though, your choice is very Tolkien-esque and I love that it features the “fellowship” aspect!
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It was super hard to choose! And I’m glad you agree that it is Tolkien-esque! It just felt the most right haha 😀
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Unbelievably, with all this choice, we agree on that cover – I also really like the third cover, top row.
Lynn 😀
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Thats awesome that we agree! (tho I wasn’t a big fan of the the third cover.) 😀
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Wow! So many amazing covers!! 😀 It’s definitely difficult to choose a favourite.
I’d probably go for the Houghton Mifflin 2012, Houghton Mifflin 1999, Houghton Mifflin 1988, Harper Collins 2013 and Ballantine 1977…. but choosing between them…. ahhh! Probably the Harper Collins – Beautiful and simple! 😀
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Ooooh those are all good ones! I agree the Harper Collins is super beautiful!
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