How long does it take to read The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings?
The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien takes about 30 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 30 hours 18 minutes
A long haul
First published 1979. 1,653 pages, about 454,575 words.
61 days (about 9 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 50 hours 31 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 30 hours 18 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 18 hours 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 27 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
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