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

[Jeanne Schramm]

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> 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
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> On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Michael Caricofe wrote:
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>  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:
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>>>
>>> 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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