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How long is the book The Return of the King?

How long is the book The Return of the King?

The Return of the King

First edition, with Tolkien’s artwork
Author J. R. R. Tolkien
Publication date 20 October 1955
Pages 416 (first edition)
OCLC 933993

How many words is Return of the King?

137,115 words
The Return of the King – 137,115 words. The entire Lord of the Rings series (including The Hobbit) – 576,459 words.

How many pages is Lord of the Rings book 1?

423first edition
The Fellowship of the Ring/Page count

How long does it take to read Lord of the Rings?

11 hours and 32 minutes
The average reader will spend 11 hours and 32 minutes reading this book at 250 WPM (words per minute). The opening novel of The Lord of the Rings—the greatest fantasy epic of all time—which continues in The Two Towers and The Return of the King.

What is the longest LotR book?

The Fellowship of the Ring
The longest single book Tolkien wrote was The Fellowship of the Ring, but even that’s nothing when compared to all three parts of The Lord of the Rings gathered into one volume.

Which is the longest Lord of the Rings book?

How many words are in Harry Potter Book 2?

There are 76,944 words. How many words are in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets? There are 85,141 words.

What is the longest Lord of the Rings book?

Who had the ring the longest?

Of the Ring-bearers, three were alive after the Ring’s destruction, the hobbits Bilbo, Frodo, and Sam. Bilbo, having borne the Ring the longest, had had his life much prolonged. Frodo was scarred physically and mentally by his quest.

How many books are in The Return of the King?

The Return of the King. The Return of the King is the third and final volume of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, following The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers. Tolkien conceived of The Lord of the Rings as a single volume comprising six sections he called “books” and extensive appendices.

Why was Return of the King called Return of King?

The original publisher split the work into three volumes, publishing the fifth and sixth books with the appendices into the final volume with the title The Return of the King. Tolkien felt the chosen title revealed too much of the story, and indicated he preferred The War of the Ring as a title.

Which is the last book in The Lord of the Rings?

The Return of the King is the third and final volume of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, following The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers.

Why is The Return of the King shorter than The Silmarillion?

This is why both the Silmarillion and the Return of the King may appear shorter than expected. Since just comparing the number of unique words in a book does not take its length into account I decided to calculate the percentage of unique words of the whole text. I choose to call this “unique word density”.

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