I was watching the third disc of TTT EE today (which is of course the first disc of TTT's documentary discs) & found a spot where several people talked a bit about the Two Towers & which towers they thought they were.
One of them said that Tolkien at one point said 'quite clearly' that the two towers were Orthanc & Cirith-Ungol (as SPM said earlier), but added that it could of course refer to Minas Tirith & Barad-Dur--the towers that represent the power of the free peoples of Middle-Earth & the power that is trying to destroy the free peoples of Middle-Earth. Philipa Boyens also brought up that it coud be Minas Morgul & Minas Tirith, the towers that used to be twins; and it was also mentioned that at one point Tolkien said that it could in fact be the union of the two towers, Orthanc & Barad-Dur, that the title refers to (giving license to the way PJ decided to portray it). It's really up for grabs, because to my knowledge Tolkien himself never actually specified which two were actually the towers described in the title of the book.
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