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Book · by J.R.R. Tolkien · first published 1980

How many pages is Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth?

Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth by J.R.R. Tolkien has a median of 476 pages across 16 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 472 to 496 pages.

Median pages
476
16 editions counted
Range
472–592
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
8.4h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
131k
at 275 words per page

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Reading time
8 h 23 min
At 30 min a day
17 days
At 1 hour a day
9 days

Page count of every edition, by year

Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.

500550600198019902000201020201980: 472 pages1980: 483 pages1980: 472 pages1980: 472 pages1982: 480 pages1982: 472 pages1988: 512 pages1991: 472 pages1998: 592 pages2001: 472 pages2010: 496 pages2012: 472 pages2014: 472 pages2020: 490 pages2020: 496 pages2020: 496 pagesmedian 476
5005506001980200020201980: 472 pages1980: 483 pages1980: 472 pages1980: 472 pages1982: 480 pages1982: 472 pages1988: 512 pages1991: 472 pages1998: 592 pages2001: 472 pages2010: 496 pages2012: 472 pages2014: 472 pages2020: 490 pages2020: 496 pages2020: 496 pagesmedian 476
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 16 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 62 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2020Houghton Mifflin Harcourthardcover490OL62349900M
2020HarperCollins Publishers Limited–496OL29501624M
2020HarperCollins Publishers Limited–496OL29501637M
2014––472OL27231338M
2012Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company–472OL34006784M
2010HarperCollins PublishersHardcover496OL10236383M
2001Houghton Mifflin–472OL3969871M
1998HarperCollins PublishersPaperback592OL10236420M

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Questions

How many pages is Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth?
About 476 pages: that is the median of 16 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 472 to 592 pages.
How long does it take to read Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth?
About 8 h 23 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 17 days.
How many words is Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth?
Roughly 131,000 words, estimated from the median page count at 275 words per page. Open Library does not record word counts, so this is an estimate.

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)).