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<3Peregrin
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Jan 17 2010, 1:29am
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a question about the "trilogy"
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I would like to know why there are all of these things saying that a "true fan knows that the lord of the rings isn't a trilogy." Is it because they are counting The Hobbit as a part of it, or because Tolkien wrote LotR as six books, but then published them as three? Thank you =D
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Kangi Ska
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Jan 17 2010, 2:16am
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It was written as one volume with six books within it.
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The publisher forced the split into three separate volumes for economic reasons.
Kangi Ska At night one cannot tell if crows are black or white.
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Alicia
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Jan 17 2010, 2:17am
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Nope, he actually wrote them as one & they ended up being published as three. Rayner & Unwin, I think, were his publishers, & (correct me if I'm wrong, those of you who know better about this than I) they thought that no one would buy a book that big. They broke it into 3, & made up the titles, too. Tolkien wasn't too pleased with that, because the title of the 3rd book kind of gives away the ending... -Alicia allywag67@aol.com www.thewagband.com Edited to say: Right, Kangi, one volume. I was thinking book = volume.
It's easier to try than to prove it can't be done. -Justin Hayward, the Moody Blues
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<3Peregrin
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Jan 17 2010, 2:46am
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thank you! That makes much more sense than everything that I was thinking...I must say I was quite confused.
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dernwyn
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Jan 17 2010, 3:19am
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As Kangi and Alicia have noted: Tolkien intended it to be one volume of six books, but that was not to be. After he submitted LotR, Rayner Unwin told him it would have to be priced at £3. 10s. published that way, and Tolkien apologized for "having produced such a monster"! A few months later, after consulting the printers, Allen & Unwin decided to publish it in three volumes, costing 21s. each. There were two primary reasons to keep the cost (and number of printings) as low as possible: the post-war paper shortage, and whether there would be much of an audience for the book (they might not have to print as many volumes of the second and third books). So they figured this was the most economical solution.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "I desired dragons with a profound desire" "It struck me last night that you might write a fearfully good romantic drama, with as much of the 'supernatural' as you cared to introduce. Have you ever thought of it?" -Geoffrey B. Smith, letter to JRR Tolkien, 1915
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Eldy
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Jan 22 2010, 7:14pm
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Tolkien actually came up with the following titles for the volumes (with the over-all title of The Lord of the Rings) in Letter 140 (17 August, 1953): Volume I: The Fellowship of the Ring Volume II: The Two Towers Volume III: The War of the Ring (but he said that he would accept The Return of the King)
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elvenhobbit
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Jan 26 2010, 10:02am
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Hmm a true fan knows of the many pre and post books, and personally i count the Hobbit followed by the trilogy to make the quad - but it depends how u look at it.
Elven by name, Hobbit by nature 'Road lead ever on and on down from the door where it began now far ahead the road has gone down from where all began' -FOTR- and through all the world has changed the ages come and go with time and yet those remain unchanged unto they journey westward over the sea...
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