The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers: Audiobook
Book 2 of the Lord of the Rings BBC Radio series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers runs 4.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Richard O'Callaghan and Peter Woodthorpe and others (about 3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 4.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 9 days |
| 1 hour / day | 5 days |
| 2 hours / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 3 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 4.5 hours, it is shorter than 93% of the 1,909 Epic Fantasy audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Lord of the Rings BBC Radio Series
This is book 2. Book 1 runs 4.6 hours before it; books 1 to 2 run 9.1 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring | 4.6 hrs |
| 2 | The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers | 4.5 hrs |
More narrated by Peter Woodthorpe
Peter Woodthorpe narrates 4 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 24 hours in all.
- The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring
- Edgar Wallace: A Classic BBC Radio Crime Collection: Four Full-cast Dramatisations
- Frank Wedekind: Spring Awakening & more: Four Full-Cast BBC Radio Productions
About as long, on the Epic Fantasy shelf
27 Epic Fantasy audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring
- Tales of the Celestial Kingdom
- In the Shadow of the Fall
- The Bull and the Spear [Dramatized Adaptation]
- Og-Grim-Dog and The War of The Dead: A Fantasy Horror
Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers is book 2 of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings BBC Radio series: a 4.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Richard O'Callaghan, Peter Woodthorpe and Douglas Livingstone and others, released September 3, 2007, on the Epic Fantasy shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 4.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Richard O'Callaghan, Peter Woodthorpe, Douglas Livingstone, David Collings, Robert Stephens, Michael Hordern
- Released
- September 3, 2007
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Epic Fantasy
- Series
- Lord of the Rings BBC Radio Series #2
- ISBN
- 9781405646208
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers as an audiobook?
The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers runs 4.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3 hours.
Is The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers?
The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers is narrated by Richard O'Callaghan, Peter Woodthorpe, Douglas Livingstone and David Collings and others.