the sad fact of the matter

...the sad fact of the matter is, whenever i hear someone say 'the twin towers' i think they mean the twin towers of minas morgul and minas tirith, and the really sad fact of the matter is that those aren't even 'the two towers' that the title of the book refers to, which is barad-dur and orthanc (or minas morgul and orthanc, tolkein gave both). and even that's not getting to the true sad fact of the matter...