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<blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 583145" data-attributes="member: 307">You have an odd definition of &quot;getting bogged down&quot;.Fellowship of the Ring clocks in at 398 pages in paperback. The Two Towers is 415 pages. In comparison, The Eye of the World, the first book in the Wheel of Time series, is 814 pages long.Yep, the first book in Jordan's (now) ten book series is, by itself, longer than the first two books of Tolkien's trilogy. Add in the Return of the King and you add another 1140 pages to LotR, but a big chunk of those are appendices, roughly 700 pages of the last book is actually part of the story. Add The Great Hunt on Jordan's side, and you add 705 pages.So, the first two books of Jordan's series are about as long as the entirety of Tolkien's series. And yet, Tolkien is &quot;long winded&quot; and Jordan is not? You have an odd idea of what constitutes &quot;long-winded&quot;. (Plus, I was never as bored with LotR as I was with the interminable travelling sequences in Eye of the World).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Storm Raven, post: 583145, member: 307"] You have an odd definition of "getting bogged down". [i]Fellowship of the Ring[/i] clocks in at 398 pages in paperback. [i]The Two Towers[/i] is 415 pages. In comparison, [i]The Eye of the World[/i], the first book in the Wheel of Time series, is 814 pages long. Yep, the [i][b]first[/b][/i][b][/b] book in Jordan's (now) ten book series is, by itself, longer than the first two books of Tolkien's trilogy. Add in the [i]Return of the King[/i] and you add another 1140 pages to LotR, but a big chunk of those are appendices, roughly 700 pages of the last book is actually part of the story. Add [i]The Great Hunt[/i] on Jordan's side, and you add 705 pages. So, the first two books of Jordan's series are about as long as the entirety of Tolkien's series. And yet, Tolkien is "long winded" and Jordan is not? You have an odd idea of what constitutes "long-winded". (Plus, I was never as bored with LotR as I was with the interminable travelling sequences in Eye of the World). [/QUOTE]

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