[PW] ? Number of words in Harry Potter and Tolkien

[Michael Hart]

I remember back in typing class they measured out typing as
5 characters per word, but I'm thinking there must be a lot
more than 5 million characters in the Harry Potter series.

Anyone have any idea for any of the books or the series, or
for Tolkein, for that matter?


Thanks!!!


Michael



On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Michael Caricofe wrote:

> And the total of these HP books according t the list below is 1,084,170.
>
> Michael
>
> (I'm assuming the last entry, provided by Ms. Nieto, is for Deathly
> Hallows.)
>
>
> On 7/15/08, swguardian-wombat at yahoo.com <swguardian-wombat at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Here is one half from the Harry Potter Lexicon. The official word
>> count was provided to the  by Scholastic Inc (with one exception).
>>
>> Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - 76,944
>> Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - 85,141
>> Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - 107,253
>> Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - 190,637
>> Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - 257,045
>> Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - 168,923
>> Approximately 198,227 (thanks to Rebecca M. Nieto)
>> Official count from Scholastic still to come
>>
>> "Cramer, Jeff" <Jeff.Cramer at walden.org> wrote: I¡Çm giving a talk tomorrow
>> to a group of high school students and wanted to know the total number of
>> words in all seven Harry Potter novels, and the total number of words in
>> either all of Tolkien or at least Lord of the Rings. Does anyone either know
>> or know of a source? Thanks. - Jeff
>>
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