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It’s a really long book though.
No it's not...Its around 300 pages, that's pretty standard length for most novels, might even be a little short TBH considering the genre.
It’s over 1200 pages (presumably including the appendices). I doubt even abridged versions are only 300.
You don't really need to read any of the appendices TBH unless you really want to. They're not really important to the actual story in the novel itself
I feel like most 300 page novels could easily be 3 movies.
I very much disagree, there's so much stuff which works well in books that absolutely does not translate to film. Many things that take 5+ pages to do in written media is a 10sec scene in film.
Like Tolkien describing all the trees, and the rocks, and the flowers, and the blades of grass... :)
I love the universe he has created, I fucking hate his writing style.
This is about the hobbit
My ebook of The Hobbit is 217 pages. My ebook of The Fellowship of the Ring is 377 pages.
So the first book of the LOTR trilogy is 73% longer than the whole Hobbit book.
Without comparing fonts and margins, counting pages is pointless. Wordcount is what matters. (spoiler: it is among his shorter works by word count as well.)