Thread: The Fall of Gondolin
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Old 09-06-2018, 07:54 AM   #26
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Originally Posted by BenG View Post
Food rationing didn't end until '54.
Tolkien wrote in a letter dated 1952:


And I'm sure the price of an out-sized book would hurt sales. Paperbacks were shorter back then because publishers didn't think people would pay more than 50 cents.
I'm sure the economics of the time were a lot different to today's in general. For example when Oswald assassinated Kennedy he then ducked into a movie theater (without paying). The cost to buy a ticket back in 1963 was just under $1.00.
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