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<p>[QUOTE="Battousai, post: 12480, member: 103"]</p><p>The thing about the index and appendixes is because Tolkien envisioned the whole thing as a gigantic tome that was to be published all together, hence all that stuff appearing at the very end of the thing. Also in terms of division of work, he considered the story to be divided into 6 volumes. What happened was that his publisher and no other publisher really was willing to publish it in a single tome because of the costs and because it was simply huge. So Tolkien dropped that and went with the 6 book angle because he was afraid the book would never be published if he kept insisting on one book, but then again publishers were unwilling because at the time paper supplies were still recovering from World War II and the publisher wanted to minimize the publishing costs in case it wasn't successful but they were forced to print all the books because of the publishing contract.</p><p></p><p>So they resolved to divide it into 3 books each with 2 volumes of the story each, which was a bit of a jumbled mess because of how Tolkien had devised the whole thing and how the publisher simply chopped it up at places.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Battousai, post: 12480, member: 103"] The thing about the index and appendixes is because Tolkien envisioned the whole thing as a gigantic tome that was to be published all together, hence all that stuff appearing at the very end of the thing. Also in terms of division of work, he considered the story to be divided into 6 volumes. What happened was that his publisher and no other publisher really was willing to publish it in a single tome because of the costs and because it was simply huge. So Tolkien dropped that and went with the 6 book angle because he was afraid the book would never be published if he kept insisting on one book, but then again publishers were unwilling because at the time paper supplies were still recovering from World War II and the publisher wanted to minimize the publishing costs in case it wasn't successful but they were forced to print all the books because of the publishing contract. So they resolved to divide it into 3 books each with 2 volumes of the story each, which was a bit of a jumbled mess because of how Tolkien had devised the whole thing and how the publisher simply chopped it up at places. [/QUOTE]
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