No, Tar, I think you are correct -- that Tolkien vascilated on the meaning long after the book was published. (Though I am QUITE certain he never intended for the meaning to be any sort of reference to the World Trade Centers, which began construction in 1962, eight years after TTT's publication!)
Personally, when reading the book, I felt that the two towers were Minas Tirith and Minas Morgul -- the "good tower" and the "bad tower" which faced each other from across the Anduin...
Guess I was wrong! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
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