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Message: <blockquote data-quote="knightofround" data-source="post: 5325633" data-attributes="member: 27884">Not to nitpick or anything, but I really doubt that profit had anything to do with the length of WoT. Robert Jordan simply had a tendency to, well, not be able to stop writing. Not just his WoT books, but his Conan stuff too. As long as the WoT series is, it would be 1.5x longer if his wife didn't edit out most of it. He was writing the last book when he died, and the author who picked it up, Brandon Sanderson, saw no way to finish it in one book...so its being split up into 3. And if you've read the first follow-up written by Sanderson, I think you'll see that Sanderson condenses a *ton* more action in a book compared to Jordan...and yet, that first book is one of the largest WoT books on record...with two more to come.So I really doubt it had anything to do with profit. I think it has more likely that Jordan let his creative world get too big; too many storylines, too many characters; which inevitably killed the pacing in the later half of the series.The sad thing is that there were many other books that Jordan wanted to write that were not the core WoT...the most exciting of which, imo, was an out-trigger of Mat in Seanchan after WoT ends. Sadly, those stories will never see the light of day. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> Jordan was a giant, and he is missed.</blockquote>

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