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Like a seven-minute barrel ride down a river.
Or a “battle of five pages” getting turned into an entire movie.
Not just one book, one significantly shorter than any of the other LOTR novels.
Watch yourself a fanedit then. I recommend the M4 book edit. All of the additional stuff removed. Sticks as close to the book as possible and comes in at about 4 hours.
Yes the fan edits are great and this one is my favorite as well. As far as I’m concerned this is the definitive version and is now a part of my rewatch marathons. It’s not just a re-edit, they fix the color grading and add film grain to match LOTR’s look and some clever effects to actually change some frames. Really well done.
It’s a really long book though.
My ebook of The Hobbit is 217 pages. My ebook of The Fellowship of the Ring is 377 pages.
So the first book of the LOTR trilogy is 73% longer than the whole Hobbit book.
Without comparing fonts and margins, counting pages is pointless. Wordcount is what matters. (spoiler: it is among his shorter works by word count as well.)
The reader I used to get the page count from, is set up to use the same font, font size, and margins for all ebooks. So the page count should be comparable between the two books.
But since you mentioned word count…
- My edition of The Hobbit has 96,923 words.
- My edition of The Fellowship of the Ring has 192,625 words.
So by word count, The Fellowship of the Ring is almost twice as long as The Hobbit.
Adding in the other books of the Lord of the Rings:
- The Two Towers: 157,065 words.
- The Return of the King: 210,618 words.
That brings the whole Lord of the Rings Trilogy to a total of 560,308 words. Meaning that the Lord of the Rings trilogy is 5.8 times longer than The Hobbit…
Looking at the extended edition run times of the movies, The Lord of the Rings trilogy runs for 10 hours and 26 minutes. The Hobbit trilogy runs for 7 hours and 52 minutes. So in movie form The Lord of the Rings in only 32% longer than The Hobbit.
So there’s 67 milliseconds of Lord of the Rings movie, per word from the books, where as there’s 292 milliseconds of The Hobbit movie, per word from the book. That’s 4.4 times as much movie runtime per word in The Hobbit, than in the Lord of the Rings… Which is quite thinly stretched…
No it’s not…Its around 300 pages, that’s pretty standard length for most novels, might even be a little short TBH considering the genre.
This is about the hobbit
I thoroughly enjoyed the series. Sue me.
Same, I even liked the romantic subplot between that elf and one of the dwarves. Everyone else seem to hate it.
Just like the rest of the movies if you judge it in a vacuum it’s a very fun series. If you view it through the lens of the books they’re somewhat of a let down but I’m not quite sure how it could be done better given the open questions in the series and the author being thoroughly dead.
