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Originally Posted by E.M.DuBois
Yeah, known that little tidbit for The Lord of the Rings for years now. Hell, Tolkien didn't even like the title for The Return of the King (because it "told you what happened.") The price of paper would have made it unaffordable otherwise. Still, I think that did well for it, making it into a trilogy. Now I have the single volume on my phone.
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The first time I read Lord of the Rings was a single volume paperback edition borrowed from a library. A bit heavy but not all that bad weightwise though I hate thinking about how long ago that was.