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Old 06-18-2009, 01:48 PM   #151
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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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Old 06-18-2009, 02:13 PM   #152
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How very irrational of you!
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Old 06-18-2009, 02:51 PM   #153
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How very irrational of you!


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Old 07-14-2009, 09:54 PM   #154
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Well, this is a dead thread, but I ran across the following to day, & so I just had to post it:

"A trilogy is a set of three books that are related in theme but that can stand independently of one another as three individual stories."

That does not describe LotR, in my view.
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Old 07-14-2009, 10:47 PM   #155
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I personally, hated the singing, BUT I LOVE LOTR!

I skipped over most of the songs when reading the trilogy as well, especially the ones in elvish.
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