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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I remember reading that it was due to post war paper shortages.
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It came out in the mid 50's so the paper shortages should have been over well before then. I remember reading that they split it into 3 books because the one massive book would have been very expensive to produce. Back then, books were frequently much shorter. I know that the LOTR Wiki says that it was to mitigate the possibility of being a flop, but I'm pretty sure I read the other in a quote from Tolkien.