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Harmon · 06-17-2009, 11:13 PM

What we need is even more angels on this pin:

"The Lord of the Rings is not a trilogy: by the time it was being prepared for publication in 1950, Tolkien was thinking of it as a duology: a book of two parts, the other being The Silmarillion - a work concieved of as being of equal size to The Lord of the Rings (Letter 126 to Milton Waldon, 10/3/1950)."
http://www.tolkiensociety.org/tolkien/tale.html

06-17-2009, 11:13 PM	#150
Harmon King of the Bongo Drums Posts: 1,631 Karma: 5927225 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: Excelsior! (Strange...)	What we need is even more angels on this pin: "The Lord of the Rings is not a trilogy: by the time it was being prepared for publication in 1950, Tolkien was thinking of it as a duology: a book of two parts, the other being The Silmarillion - a work concieved of as being of equal size to The Lord of the Rings (Letter 126 to Milton Waldon, 10/3/1950)." http://www.tolkiensociety.org/tolkien/tale.html Last edited by Harmon; 06-17-2009 at 11:30 PM.