Reddit mentions of The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition

>The funny thing is that the Hobbit & Lord of the Rings combined were smaller than AFFC & ADWD

I had to look it up and holy shit, you're right!

LotR one volume edition has 1178 pages

Hobbit has only 300 pages

But A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons together consist of 2256 pages.

It's crazy.

No, let's do cost comparison for entertainment time.

I can buy the Lord of the Rings for $12.49. It will take me at least 100 hours to read it. That's $0.12 (rounded) per hour.

With this information in mind, I suppose the retail price for AAA titles will soon be adjusted accordingly.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0618640150/ref=mp_s_a_1_5?qid=1420489485&sr=8-5&pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70


I use this one as my main reading copy. The binding on my copy is good, and despite its size it's pretty easy to read.

"Best" in what way? The current editions have the most accurate text; my personal reading copy is this one-volume edition.

What you're looking for is the 50th Anniversary edition. It's considered to be the most complete and most correct.

The bible itself is split into separate "books". While these aren't physical objects (unless if each is sold seperate lay) they act almost as parts. It's kinda like one of those large compilations of separate books in a series, like this Lord of the Rings one. Some people refer to the bible as one large piece, like the one volume Lord of the Rings edition I linked to above. Others refer to the collection of books, like Genesis, as if you were referring to Lord of the Rings as a trilogy and not one book.

It's mostly just how people want to view the Bible, whether it be one volume that contains many separate "books" or multiple ones, that can be grouped into a series known as the "Bible".

http://www.amazon.com/Lord-Rings-50th-Anniversary-Vol/dp/0618640150/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1417769703&sr=8-5&keywords=lord+of+the+rings

Like this

Sorry!

DUNE is dune, its the name of the book.

LOTR = Lord of The Rings

HHGTTG = Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.

I think the best version is by some guy named Tolkien. If you're looking to go a little more traditional, try KJV.

what I'm thinking is more along the lines of: it's always cheaper to buy books in one volume than multiple volumes. for example on amazon I can buy The Lord of the Rings in one volume for $16.00 yet if I buy ONLY Return of the King it costs $8.76 What I'm saying, at the very least, is: If it were broken up into novellas the series as a whole would cost more for you.

I think we can both agree on that. The publisher's profit margins are another story.

>Believe me, I've tried...

http://www.amazon.com/Iliad-Homer/dp/0374529051

http://www.amazon.com/Odyssey-Homer/dp/0374525749/

http://www.amazon.com/Aeneid-Everymans-Library-Virgil/dp/0679413359/

http://www.amazon.com/Tale-Genji-Penguin-Classics-Deluxe/dp/014243714X/

http://www.amazon.com/Three-Kingdoms-Chinese-Translation-Footnotes/dp/0804843937/

http://www.amazon.com/Republic-Plato/dp/0141442433/

http://www.amazon.com/Nicomachean-Ethics-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140449493

http://www.amazon.com/Lord-Rings-50th-Anniversary-Vol/dp/0618640150/

http://www.amazon.com/Dune-Frank-Herbert/dp/0441172717/

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https://www.coursera.org/

http://playgo.to/iwtg/en/

This is just stuff I came up with off the top of my head. The books alone will keep you busy for at least a couple months if you're a prodigious reader. There's pretty much no way you could possibly finish this entire list before September.

I found this on Amazon. I think it might be the books from the movie.

http://www.amazon.com/Lord-Rings-50th-Anniversary-Vol/dp/0618640150/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1324135867&sr=1-3

It's from this version, which it states has the greater index, but you could just as easily call me a liar. ;P