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Author · born 3 January 1892 · died 2 September 1973

J.R.R. Tolkien books: page counts

11 books by J.R.R. Tolkien with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
11
with page data
Longest
1,600
The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings [coll
Shortest
78
Farmer Giles of Ham

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

The Hobbit (1937)304Farmer Giles of Ham (1949)78The Return of the King (1967)474The Fellowship of the Ring (1972)432Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth (…476The Book of Lost Tales (1984)304The Silmarillion (1984)417The Two Towers (1999)398The Lord of the Rings (2001)1,168The Children of Húrin (2007)320The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings [collection…1,600
The Hobbit (1937)304Farmer Giles of Ham …78The Return of the Ki…474The Fellowship of th…432Unfinished Tales of …476The Book of Lost Tal…304The Silmarillion (19…417The Two Towers (1999)398The Lord of the Ring…1,168The Children of Húri…320The Hobbit & The Lor…1,600
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
The Hobbit1937304179–4835 h 22 min
Farmer Giles of Ham19497863–1431 h 22 min
The Return of the King1967474220–8648 h 21 min
The Fellowship of the Ring1972432206–8567 h 37 min
Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth1980476472–5928 h 23 min
The Book of Lost Tales1984304297–3855 h 22 min
The Silmarillion1984417365–5767 h 21 min
The Two Towers1999398234–7767 h 01 min
The Lord of the Rings20011,168529–1,24820 h 35 min
The Children of Húrin2007320313–3365 h 38 min
The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings [collection/set]–1,6001,472–2,06428 h 13 min

Reading all 11 takes about 105 h 16 min at average speed (5,972 pages).

Data: Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings) (Open Library / Internet Archive); How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate (Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019)).