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How long does it take to read The War of the Jewels?

J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien

The War of the Jewels by J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien takes about 8 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 11 of The History of Middle-earth

Previous: Morgoth's Ring Next: The Peoples of Middle-earth

About 8 hours 37 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 1994. 470 pages, about 129,250 words.

18 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 14 hours 22 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 8 hours 37 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 5 hours 23 minutes

The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

Subjects: English Fantasy fiction, Middle Earth (Imaginary place), Fiction, Fantasy fiction, English, Fantasy, Fiction, fantasy, epic

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