It takes place 60 years before the fellowship of the ring, and serves the purpose of filling in details that previously went unexplained. The hobbit questions and answers discover the community of teachers, mentors and students just like you that can answer any question you might have on the hobbit. So the length of these affects the pacing of your story, and the way the reader experiences it. Tolkien 1951 second edition revised, 5th printing houghton mifflin company boston isbn. The hobbit that i know of has around 300 400 pages. Or are you a visually impaired reader who prefers largeprint editions. The hobbit 95,022 the lord of the rings 455,125 the two towers 143,436 the return of the king 4,462. The trilogy of films 474 minutes of orcs and elves is based on a single novel by j. An unexpected journey, as a guidepost and divided the number. A story that is over 40,000 words is generally considered a novel. It explains certain aspects of both the book and movie that were previously left up to the imagination of. And history teaches us that no matter how faithful or unfaithful a film adaptation is with respect to its original source, someone will complain about the movies unfaithfulness to the books. Tolkien that, according to my paperback copy, numbers 293 pages.
Why is the hobbit movie so different from the book. However, since each tome blitzed the 100,000 word mark the fellowship of. The last book in the series, harry potter and the deathly hallows, is 157. Collection of hobbit trilogy fanedits and adaptations since there are a growing number of fan edits out there and it can be a little overwhelming which one to view, or even how to locate some of the older ones, i thought itd be wise to get them all under one page and add new ones accordingly. Initially intended as a standalone story for children, it was later realigned more into the middleearth legendarium by 1951, when a revised edition was released.
Page counts arent always the same among editions, but were just looking for an estimate of length. 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. An unexpected journey is a 2012 epic high fantasy adventure film directed by peter jackson. Thats the level where publishers may suggest dividing a story into multiple volumes. From these numbers, we can establish some guidelines. With ian mckellen, martin freeman, richard armitage, cate blanchett. The hobbit battle of the five armies blu ray3d like star wars, the lord of the rings series came out over a long period of time and not exactly in sequence. When combined, the total harry potter word count is over a million words. However, the exact number of pages varies from edition to edition due to font size, page size, use of. 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. Based on 982 characters from the hobbit, lord of the rings and tolkiens posthumously published works including the silmarillion. The number of pages also doesnt help much, as publishers use different typefaces, page sizes, font sizes, etc.
Statistics on the demography of middleearth based on lotrprojects extensive database of characters. However, confident that his book would one day be divided into a dozen movies, author jrr tolkien also provided 125 pages of hobbit backstory, billed as the appendecies, in a later edition of. Since the second and third instalments have not been released, he used the length of the first film, titled the hobbit. The book remains popular and is recognized as a classic in childrens literature. The truth is that in this book a number of good things, never before united, have come together. Yesterday he had been too flustered to do anything of the kind. Collection of hobbit trilogy fanedits and adaptations. At an average reading rate of 125 words per minute, thats about 145 hours of reading. Tolkien, were delighted to be featuring a new book in our book club by internationally regarded tolkien scholar devin brown, the. English the book of mormon, published by joseph smith, jr. In it, a hobbit named bilbo baggins leaves his sheltered life and travels alongside the wizard.
The radio dramatisation of the hobbit became a classic when it was first broadcast on bbc radio 4 in 1968 and it continues to delight today. Tolkien, with large portions of the trilogy inspired by the appendices to the return of the king, which expand on the story told in the hobbit, as well as new material and characters written especially for the films. However, it will be on the short side, as the average length of a novel hovers around 50,00070,000 words. Tolkien the hobbit is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves, in search of dragonguarded gold. The ultimate measure of a storys size is its wordcount, however, so the. How many pages do the lord of the rings books have. Top ten differences between the hobbit book and films. The last two books are slightly shorter but still longer than the first books in the series. The hobbit is a film series consisting of three high fantasy adventure films directed by peter jackson. Tolkiens famous saga, the prelude to the lord of the rings, has all the ingredients of fantasy and adventure. The last thing that he remembered was the party at the hobbits house, and they had great difficulty in making him believe their tale of all the many adventures they had had since. Lewis the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe, roald dahls charlie and the chocolate factory. The next day he had almost forgotten about gandalf. The hobbit, or there and back again is a childrens fantasy novel by english author j.
The hobbit to be split into three movies because peter. Bilbo and company are forced to engage in a war against an array of combatants and keep the lonely mountain from falling into the hands of a rising darkness. The final hobbit film is an unprecedentedly gratuitous stretch of. The hobbit tells a fantastic story of adventure, danger, friendship, and courage, and serves as a prequel to the even more immersive and epic book series, the lord of the rings. The hobbit has more unique words and a higher unique word density than both the silmarillion and each volume in the lord of the rings. The latter tend to have larger, and therefore fewer, pages.
In total, all seven harry potter books contain 1,084,170 words. There is a certain amount of creative license that enters into any film adaptation of a book. Id like to say, the hobbit did not need to be three movies, and while they arent bad, the book was better. Differences between jrr tolkiens novel and peter jacksons movie trilogy. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in. Word counts of the most popular books in the world foster grant uk. Get cozy and expand your home library with a large online selection of books at.
I ordered this book by mistake, i though pocket edition was the publishers name not that it was pocketsize ill keep it though because its not worth the hassle of. By most peoples standards, 40,000 words would be pretty short for a novel. Read the hobbit absolutely for free at readanybook. Tolkien 18921973 is the creator of middleearth and author of such classic and extraordinary works of fiction as the hobbit, the lord of the rings, and the silmarillion. Jackson made the lord of the rings trilogy with a one book to one film ratio. Famous book series and novel word counts number of words. Other famous books 22,416 the mouse and the motorcycle beverly cleary 30,644 charlie and the chocolate factory roald dahl 35,968 old yeller fred gipson 36,363 lion the witch and the wardrobe c.
The hobbit middleearth universe the timeless classic presented in the standard hardcover edition using the authors original jacket design. A reluctant partner in this perilous quest is bilbo baggins, a comfort loving, unambitious hobbit, who surprises even himself by his resourcefulness and his skill as a burglar. Generally, 50,000 would be considered the minimum word count, and ideally a novel should be over 70,000 words. The story is shorter and it was designed for kids, but can be read by adults.
Word counts of famous book series harry potter by jk rowling. The vary in length from about ten pages to as much as 30 pages. On this 75th anniversary of the beloved tale the hobbit, by j. Tolkien is one of the most famous pieces of fantasy ever written. Tolkien 2012, book, other at the best online prices at ebay. His books have been translated into more than fifty languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide. However, since each tome blitzed the 100,000 word mark the. I dont really remember these guys from the book, to be honest. For example the star wars films, in storychronology, released as films 4, 5, 6 then 1, 2, 3 and the latest is film 7, to be followed by 8 and 9. It is the first installment in a threepart film adaptation based on j. It was published on 21 september 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being nominated for the carnegie medal and awarded a prize from the new york herald tribune for best juvenile fiction. The sorcerers stone 77,325 words the chamber of secrets 84,799 words the prisoner of azkaban 106,821 words. The first chapter, the unexpected party and flies and spiders are the longest.
The book was first published on september 21, 1937 and is set in the years 2941 to 2942 of the third age before the events of the lord of the rings. See more ideas about hobbit book, the hobbit, the hobbit book cover. Individually, each of those books is longer than the hobbit, and yet they. On the upper end, a novel over 110,000 words is considered an epic. In fact, azog is supposed to be dead from the start. That said, if your book is around 40,000 words, youre in good company. Bert, tom, and william trolls from whom bilbo takes the key to a cave from which he and the dwarves take gold and the swords they use in battle with the goblins and in the battle of. R tolkien that takes place in the fictional world of middle earth, which is the setting of most of the authors works. The hobbit, prequel and origination story to the lord of the rings trilogy, is about bilbo baggins a shireling that is used to an ordinary and wellmaintained life. The definitive collection of tolkiens classic fairie tales, in the vein of the hobbit, illustrated by oscar winner alan lee never before published in a single volume, tolkiens four novellas farmer giles of ham, leaf by niggle, smith of wootton.
Word count for famous novels organized commonplace book. Tolkien gives some indication later of the dragons size in relation to the. The number of pages also doesnt help much, as publishers use different. My main focus is on extracting information regarding book sentiment as well as getting comfortable with one of nlps techniques text chunking. Heres what film lengths plotted against page count looks like for the 54 films. Balin, dwalin, bifur, bofur, bombur, dori, nori, ori, fili, kili, oin, gloin the other twelve dwarves who go with thorin, gandalf, and bilbo on the long journey. If you care for journeys there and back, out of the comfortable western world, over the edge of the wild, and. He did not remember things very well, unless he put them down on his engagement tablet. The lord of the rings was originally intended to be a sequel to the hobbit, but became an epic fantasy on its own.
When he heard that there was nothing to eat, he sat down and wept, for he felt very weak and wobbly in the legs. The ultimate measure of a storys size is its wordcount, however, so the literary geeks here at foster grant have put together a list of many of the most popular books and short stories in history for you. Tolkiens own children, the hobbit has sold many millions of copies worldwide and established itself as a modern classic. The hobbit cliffsnotes study guides book summaries.
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