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This sketch was published (but with less of the manuscript page shown) in The Lord of the Rings Calendar 1977, together with the following note:
The writing accompanying this picture is a fragment of an early draft of the passage in The Two Towers (Book IV, Chapter 8, The Stairs of Cirith Ungol) in which is described Sam and Frodo's first sight of the Tower of Cirith Ungol. In this draft Gollum had already disappeared at this point in the story.
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