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"trilogy" Eh,, Maybe I'm being a pedant but LOTR is 6 books is it not?
by everyone 10y ago
"trilogy"
Eh,, Maybe I'm being a pedant but LOTR is 6 books is it not?
- everyone 10y agoI looked it up.. whomp "Tolkien regarded it as a single work and divided it into a prologue, six books, and five appendices. Because of post-World War II paper shortages, it was originally published in three volumes." :p Tolkien is quite clear about that in his letters http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/47419/is-lord-of-the-rings-a-trilogy-of-books-in-tolkiens-opinion http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/47419/is-lord-of-th...
- evincarofautumn 10y agoReminds me of the, uh, “mistrilogiation” that happened with the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: > The novels are described as “a trilogy in five parts” […] The US edition of the fifth book was originally released with the legend “The fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker’s Trilogy” on the cover. […] the blurb on the fifth book describes it as “the book that gives a whole new meaning to the word ‘trilogy’”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_th...