Film is an unprecedentedly gratuitous stretch of source material. The word counts you gave is helpful, but this is a nonfiction book, and i wonder if there might be a similar list for. The lord of the rings films are known for absolutely massive battles, but the final hobbit film, the hobbit. Famous book series and novel word counts number of words. Tolkien, whose the hobbit was first published in 1937. Sure, the book is long and the additional screen time allowed the studio to fill out details. The hobbit cliffsnotes study guides book summaries, test. If youre looking for word counts of your favorite books or series, then youve come to the right place. Word counts of the most popular books in the world foster grant uk. But the word count of a chapter matters if you want your story to flow right. The hobbit is the infamous story of bilbo baggins and his journey to help get the lands back for the dwarves.
Minimum realistic word count of nonfiction book writing. Word count for famous novels organized by hawthorn mineart, under books, writing. However, since each tome blitzed the 100,000 word mark the fellowship of. Gandalf warns them that they are at the edge of the wild and that they can stay with his friend elrond in rivendell. Interestingly enough, all three books share the same top three words. He is the groups resident thief but also becomes their conscience as they fight for. Jul 30, 2012 jackson made the lord of the rings trilogy with a one book to one film ratio. Oct 10, 2016 again, when considering the authority of agents and publishers, carstairs recommends that, adhering to the expected word count demonstrates that you understand your market. The book remains popular and is recognized as a classic in. If youre writing an adult fantasy novel or an epic fantasy novel like game of thrones, your word count can skew higher at 90,000 200,000 words. However, this does not necessarily mean it is more difficult to read. Click on the lines to view information regarding individual days. There has been much beardscratching at the decision to eke a trilogy out of the hobbit, a quarter of the length of the lord of the rings. The hobbit, or there and back again is a childrens fantasy novel by english author j.
Peter jacksons battle of the five armies length is insane. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the wobbit a parody of the hobbit the wobbit. If you are an author of a book or know of a book s accurate wordcount, contact me. Harry potter and the philosophers stone 76,944 words. Your job is to write a good story, and that means including all the detail needed to to make it good, and to leave out anything extraneous. 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. Eventually thorin interjects and announces that it is time for bilbo to do what he was hired for. It costs a great deal of money to actually bind books. But after the latters success, warner bros can probably. 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. But because time sometimes slows down or speeds up when were engrossed in a good story, its very hard to compare the length of different. The way is difficult, but at last they come to the valley of rivendell and are greeted by singing elves. However, since each tome blitzed the 100,000 word mark the fellowship of the ring has 177,227 words, the two towers has 143,436 words, and the return of the king has 4,462 there was more than enough descriptive ingredients for the director. For book length, i chose to go with word count rather than page count, since theres so much variability when it comes to the number of words that.
It costs time and money to have an editor work scrupulously with an author to condense their book down to an acceptable word count. How many pages do the lord of the rings books have altogether. Not only do you need to know how many words are in a novel, but also why and how the genre youre writing it can change this word count. Based on this list compiled by nicole humphrey cook.
The length should be determined by the story itself, and as long as you do your job. The book contains over 1100 words and is intended to be a quick reference. The eight harry potter books have an impressive combined word count of over 1 million words. The entire lord of the rings series including the hobbit 576,459 words. Or are you a visually impaired reader who prefers largeprint editions. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Thanks to the massive amount of material written by tolkein, the world of middleearth is rich enough to expand this small story into a largescale cinematic epic to accompany peter jacksons the lord. Between the novelizations of the silmarillion, the hobbit, the lord of the. This is due to the audience youre reaching preferring that length. Time and distance travelled in the lord of the rings and the. Word counts of the most popular books in the world foster. May 29, 2014 ive put together word counts for every book of the bible. Shorter novels such as fahrenheit 451, the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, the great gatsby, and slaughterhousefive are between 4050,000 words. The book remains popular and is recognized as a classic in childrens literature.
Word count for famous novels organized commonplace book. Bilbo and the dwarves approach the misty mountains. Put simply, the sweet spot for a novels word count is generally said to be around 8090k. Read the hobbit absolutely for free at readanybook. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the hobbit lord of the rings. Where do the books the hobbit and the lord of the rings trilogy lie in between. Tolkien the hobbit is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves, in search of dragonguarded gold. I used the lexham hebrew bible and the nestlealand novum testamentum graece for these word counts. As you read the hobbit, you might find yourself confidently checking a dictionary for a definition only to find it not there, because with tolkiens knowledge of the fundamentals of language, his madeup words sound real. On one level, you could argue that word count, or length, is probably the last thing a fiction writer should worry about. By the way, if you want to know what i think of logos. Oct 18, 2017 therefore, the word count of a novel is crucial if you want your book to be fit for publication.
In this prequel to the lord of the rings, bilbo baggins enjoys a quiet life until a group of dwarves and a wizard named gandalf enlist him in their quest for a dragons treasure. For average word counts based on genre, see this handy reference. After six years of intermittent composition, the hobbit was published as a childrens book to critical and popular acclaim. With multifilm adaptations proving to be longterm moneymakers that. Theres the joy luck club and the hobbit at 91,000 and 95,000 words respectively. He enjoys a peaceful and pastoral life but his life is interrupted by a surprise visit by the wizard gandalf.
The sense of danger increases and, once again, bilbo thinks of home. The latter tend to have larger, and therefore fewer, pages. How many pages do the lord of the rings books have. Before bilbo is really able to improve upon the situation, gandalf has invited himself to tea and when he arrives, he comes with a company of dwarves led by thorin. R download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Individually, each of those books is longer than the hobbit, and yet they. Often torn between his love of the comforts of home and his desire for adventure, he contributes to the successful. Aug 03, 2017 word counts of the most popular books in the world date august 3, 2017 if youre a big reader then youve probably read a mixture of very short and very long books in your lifetime. To simplify things, i divided the total word count for the hobbit 95, 022by three and used that count for each of the three hobbit movies 31,674 because run times for the next two hobbit movies are unknown, i reused the run time for the first hobbit movie 169 minutes, or 10,140 seconds for the next two installments. Whether youre just curious about how many words are in these books or youre writing a book and want to compare the length of your novel to these famous tomes, then read on to find the word counts of famous books and series. Movie length, part 2 does the density of a movie adaptation of a book have any effect on its quality.
Virtually every book i try to shop by a debut author thats any longer than thatregardless of categoryreceives the same response from editors. It costs money to proofread a book twice the length of another. A parody series book 1 kindle edition by erickson, paul. The hobbit is the story of bilbo baggins, a hobbit who lives in hobbiton. Sep 20, 2019 if youre writing a young adult fantasy novel, you should keep your word count below 90,000 words or 300 book pages.
Bilbo is invited by gandalf to join him and the dwarves on their journey to the lonely mountain, home of smaug the dragon, to reclaim the treasure that belongs to the dwarves. I am trying to approach this rather pragmatically, with a view to getting published, so id prefer to modify the project to fit the needs of publishersin that regard at least, i feel the length probably does matter. Of course, when youre writing the first draft of your story, you want to just get your words out on paper. Suddenly inspired, he wrote the words, in a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. This graph is a representation of the journeys in the hobbit and the lord of the rings. However, since each tome blitzed the 100,000 word mark the fellowship of the ring has177,227 words, the two towers. But i had not read the hobbit or the silmarillion yet, and decided to put an end to. The silmarillion and the lord of the rings both introduce many times more new concepts, characters and locations which makes them more complex. Is there an ideal length of a movie based on the books word count. The word count of the silmarillion is just over k words, but i wouldnt worry too. Apr 03, 2016 and i believe pams book is good enough to one day be in that category. Immediately tolkien began work on the lord of the rings, published in 195455 after years of painstaking revision. The oxford english dictionary since the 1970s has credited tolkien with the invention of the word. The oxford english dictionary, which added an entry for the word in the 1970s, credits tolkien with coining it.
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. Reading length is a participant in the amazon services llc associates program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to and affiliated sites. You close the book and never want to see the word precious again. The final hobbit film is an unprecedentedly gratuitous. The battle of the five armies is the only one which actually features the word. The hobbit lord of the rings kindle edition by tolkien, j. Beyond creating entire languages for elves and orcs, tolkien was known for making up english words as well. Word count for famous novels, in ascending order by number of words.
The invention of the word hobbit is traditionally ascribed to j. These numbers are pulled from the original languages using logos bible softwareyou can see how i did it below. In many ways a reworking of the plot of the hobbit, the length, intensity, and complex theses of the rings. Right now, when it comes to novellength word count, its all about 90,000 words. Jan 03, 2016 the hobbit book to film analysis chapter twelve inside information the company stands before the secret door deliberating on what to do next for some time. Also, heres another list i may swipe and add in here. Jackson made the lord of the rings trilogy with a one book to one film ratio. The final hobbit film is an unprecedentedly gratuitous stretch of source material. Word count estimates are not guaranteed to be accurate. Word counts of the most popular books in the world. In this article, were going to look at how many words are in the harry potter series. Tolkien as the name of a race of small humanoids in his fantasy fiction, the first published being the hobbit in 1937.
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. We are also going to look at how harry potter is comparable to other young adult novels in regards to word count. You can navigate back and forth between dates using the arrow keys. That said, this figure differs from book to book and organization to. These details come from the silmarillion and the book of lost tales published posthumously, in 1983 and 1984. And he certainly went to great length creating the languages of the different. However, since each tome blitzed the 100,000 word mark the. Dec 17, 2014 the final hobbit film is an unprecedentedly gratuitous stretch of source material. For a few examples, lets start on the low end of word count where we have the great gatsby clocking in at approx. More recently the fault in our stars comes in at 67,000. Nov 24, 2015 i have no problems with the length of the hobbit trilogy, or that one relatively short childrens book has been adapted into three relatively long films.
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