Tolkien's final rendering of his The Two Towers dust jacket 1 is a moody painting in black, red, white, and grey on grey-brown paper, with sharp contrasts of dark and light. Wayne Hammond and Christina Scull in J.R.R. Minas Ithil, the Tower of the Rising Moon (The Fellowship of the Ring p. 27), and with the sign of the White Hand beside it Minas Morgul is a white tower, with a thin waning moon above it, in reference to its original name. Orthanc is shown as a black tower, three-homed (as seen in Pictures no. Humphrey Carpenter, in The Letters of J.R.R. I don't know if Tolkien himself commented on this, but the most reputable critical sources agree that it's a Nazgûl: This cover design is taken from one of Tolkien's own suggested covers for the book, proposed (but rejected) for the original printing:
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