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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I did not count the number of books in the list, but there may possibly be a mistake. Lord of the Rings is listed as one book when it's actually a trilogy of 3 books. So that may make the list 102 books.
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Tolkien wanted it to be published as a single volume, but that wasn't practical in post-War Britain, where paper was scarce and printing costs sky-high. It's perfectly reasonable to consider it to be a single book and, as you know, these days it is very often printed in that form.