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

[swguardian-wombat at yahoo.com]

Oops, yes that last was for the Deathly Hallows and it is listed as approximately 
only because it is not the official count from Scholastic.

Michael Caricofe <mcaricofe at gmail.com> 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  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"  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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"We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all 
the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the 
power to imagine better." J.K. Rowling, 5 June 2008, 
357th Harvard Commencement, Harvard University