Yeah, all that stuff. But there's too much of the "obvious" romance in the Two Towers... Too much for LOTR anyway.
Or, at least, when Tolkien wrote it I think he meant the romance to be blended in with the story so that it didn't stand out as much. That's the only bad thing about the Two Towers.
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The world was young, the mountains green. No stain yet on the moon was seen. No words were laid on stream or stone, When Durin woke and walked alone...
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