Timeline for Is "Lord of the Rings" a trilogy of books in Tolkien's opinion?
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| Jan 6, 2022 at 9:30 | comment | added | Amarth | From what I recall, Carpenter's biography addressed this extensively. Tolkien wanted it to be a single book but the editor thought it would be too thick, so the editor insisted on a trilogy. | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:43 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 11, 2017 at 17:50 | history | edited | Rand al'Thor♦ |
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| Jan 14, 2014 at 3:19 | comment | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | @user14111 - can? yes. Did Tolkien do so? Not sure without digging | |
| Jan 14, 2014 at 2:44 | comment | added | user14111 | Can The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion be considered a trilogy? | |
| Jan 11, 2014 at 14:46 | vote | accept | DVK-on-Ahch-To | ||
| Jan 9, 2014 at 8:27 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSciFi/status/421196411804610560 | ||
| Jan 5, 2014 at 13:16 | comment | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | For those who have no idea what @tchrist is referring to: Alexander Dumas (the author of "Three Musketeers") wrote 2 more sequel novels in the D'Artagnan Romances cycle: "Twenty Years After", and "The Vicomte of Bragelonne" (aka "Ten Years Later"). The last one was usually published split into three parts: "The Vicomte de Bragelonne", "Louise de la Valliere", and "The Man in the Iron Mask" | |
| Jan 5, 2014 at 7:55 | answer | added | opello | timeline score: 14 | |
| Jan 5, 2014 at 5:55 | answer | added | Grant Palin | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 5, 2014 at 2:54 | comment | added | tchrist | Ok, I’ve just spelled it all out in better detail in this answer. | |
| Jan 5, 2014 at 2:02 | comment | added | tchrist | This reminds me of the confusion over the Dumas œuvre. To cast it into an F&SF light, consider the homage Steven Brust did to that earlier work with his Khaavren Romances, which closely parallel Dumas in structure. It is a trilogy of three separate novels: The Phoenix Guards, Five Hundred Years After, and The Viscount of Adrilankha. However, the last of those novels was published in three separate volumes, each with its own (sub)title. That does not make those three volumes a trilogy. They’re just parts 1, 2, and 3 of one single story. | |
| Jan 4, 2014 at 22:05 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 4, 2014 at 22:02 | history | edited | DVK-on-Ahch-To | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 4, 2014 at 21:33 | answer | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | timeline score: 81 | |
| Jan 4, 2014 at 21:31 | history | asked | DVK-on-Ahch-To | CC BY-SA 3.0 |