Thread: WHy TOLKIEN and LOTR is overrated!!!
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Old 06-18-2009, 01:48 PM   #151
ahi
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Originally Posted by Harmon View Post
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
I'd like to propose that it is patently obvious to all right-thinking men that The Lord of the Rings is 3.14 books, with the inclusion of "The Hobbit".



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