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  Gwaihir the Windlord > October 26th, 2004, 11:51 PM

  the final question on jeopardy today was something like
  
  "this author had a bestseller decades ago and another best seller in 2003"
  
  doo doo doo doo do doo doo doo
  doo doo doo doooo do doo doo dooo
  thats enough
  
  yeah anywas it was tolkien which surprised me at first then i figured that the success of the films caused many to go and buy the books causing a bestseller

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  gilthoniel > October 27th, 2004, 03:53 AM

  Eh, what's that? Lord of the Rings was a bestseller in 2003?:confused:
  
  I remember when Silmarillion was selling like mad, not that anyone was reading it (it was on a lot of coffee tables), but I'm not even sure it was a bestseller. And certainly not in 2003. More like 1976.
  
  But who am I to question Alex Trabek? Did I spell that right?

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  Gwaihir the Windlord > October 27th, 2004, 09:21 AM

  yeah something lke that, antoehr thing i noticed was that ken (ken jennings-$2,006,300 something in winnings) spelled it Tolkeln with an "l" maybe it was an I or maybe he didnt know how to spell it.

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  Zvakanaka > October 27th, 2004, 01:25 PM

  I never saw these people mentioned by Tolkien??

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  RobRoy > October 27th, 2004, 02:58 PM

  Tolkien has actually, consistently, been a "best seller" since The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings were first released. While he hasn't remained on any top ten lists for immediate sales, he has, overall, sold almost as many copies as the Bible, which is generally the number one sold book in most countries.
  
  You can walk into almost any bookstore of worth and you will be able to find a copy of LOTR there. Not many authors can say the same ten years after they were first released, much less drawing on five decades. That's rather an impressive feat in and of itself.
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