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He wasn't influenced by publishing standards to make it longer. LOTR was in fact quite long by the standards of the day and had to be split into three separate
by KineticLensman 8y ago
He wasn't influenced by publishing standards to make it longer. LOTR was in fact quite long by the standards of the day and had to be split into three separate volumes as a result.
- garmaine 8y agoActually it was six volumes reduced to 3...
- KineticLensman 8y agosix books grouped into three volumes, two per volume
- DonaldPShimoda 8y agoThe "books" of LOTR are just super-chapters, really. He never intended for the six "books" to be published separately; they just divide portions of the story. He was very much against publishing LOTR in separate volumes, and only did so because his publishing agent told him it would never be published otherwise. It was too big a risk for them.