Three books? What about the single-volume LotR that I have? Is that a unology? Or how about the fact that LotR is internally split into six books? Sextology? What about the fact that wikipedia lists LotR as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilogy#Unofficial_or_mistaken_trilogies" target="_blank">mistaken trilogy?</a> Even if you pull the "lol wikipedia" card that's still two postulates (mine and wikipedia's) against one.
What about Romance of the Three Kingdoms? What is that? It can be read on the web, so we can't go by the amount of volumes it's printed in. It has 120 chapters. Maybe it's a 120-ology? The print version I gave my mother for her sixtieth birthday was in four volumes, maybe it's a quadrilogy? The amount of volumes a work is printed in is a poor indication of how it fits together. Splitting one novel into three print volumes doesn't make it a trilogy. Cutting all the pages of a thousand-page novel loose doesn't turn it into a thousand-ology (yes I admit my latin is failing me here).
The Lord of the Rings is a novel, not a trilogy of novels.
Let me get this straight. He publishes three separate books pertaining to the same central storyline, yet it's not a trilogy.
What's the difference then between J.K.Rowling's work then I ask? Just like the LODR books, the Harry Potter books were split into seven separate books. Am I supposed to think of them as a single novel even though I count three of them?
And the chronicals of narnia should be thought of as a single novel since a book has been published with all stories included, right?
If we want to have certainty, we could try asking the authors. Tolkien described the Lord of the Rings as a novel, not a trilogy. Rowling describes the Harry Potter books as seven novels, which makes it a heptology, I suppose. Similarly, the aforementioned Romance of the Three Kingdoms is one (historical) novel, regardless of format. Can't speak of the Chronicles of Narnia, don't know those too well.
I must repeat myself: You shouldn't presume that the way stories are printed in one particular instance dictates their classification. Short stories are usually printed many to a volume because they are too short to efficiently print alone, but this does not necessarily imply any kind of connection between them. Similarly, in the 19th century it was in England common to print any kind of novel in three volumes. Novel too short? They'd put two novels together so they could fill three volumes. In the end, these novels weren't trilogies or 1.5-ologies, they were just novels in three parts.
There's no legal or otherwise fixed definition of what constitutes a trilogy. The common definition would be a series of (three) distinct but connected novels. If you ask me, the Lord of the Rings isn't really a trilogy by that definition, since the (six) books blend too seamlessly into another. But really, the supreme authority is the eponymous author. And by Tolkien, LotR is a novel.
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Starcraft: 30 missions total.
Starcraft II: 36 missions <i>per part.</i> 108 missions <i>total.</i> +free online support +numerous units in addition to all (most) of the originals
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What about Romance of the Three Kingdoms? What is that? It can be read on the web, so we can't go by the amount of volumes it's printed in. It has 120 chapters. Maybe it's a 120-ology? The print version I gave my mother for her sixtieth birthday was in four volumes, maybe it's a quadrilogy? The amount of volumes a work is printed in is a poor indication of how it fits together. Splitting one novel into three print volumes doesn't make it a trilogy. Cutting all the pages of a thousand-page novel loose doesn't turn it into a thousand-ology (yes I admit my latin is failing me here).
The Lord of the Rings is a novel, not a trilogy of novels.
What's the difference then between J.K.Rowling's work then I ask? Just like the LODR books, the Harry Potter books were split into seven separate books. Am I supposed to think of them as a single novel even though I count three of them?
And the chronicals of narnia should be thought of as a single novel since a book has been published with all stories included, right?
I must repeat myself: You shouldn't presume that the way stories are printed in one particular instance dictates their classification. Short stories are usually printed many to a volume because they are too short to efficiently print alone, but this does not necessarily imply any kind of connection between them. Similarly, in the 19th century it was in England common to print any kind of novel in three volumes. Novel too short? They'd put two novels together so they could fill three volumes. In the end, these novels weren't trilogies or 1.5-ologies, they were just novels in three parts.
There's no legal or otherwise fixed definition of what constitutes a trilogy. The common definition would be a series of (three) distinct but connected novels. If you ask me, the Lord of the Rings isn't really a trilogy by that definition, since the (six) books blend too seamlessly into another. But really, the supreme authority is the eponymous author. And by Tolkien, LotR is a novel.
Starcraft:
30 missions total.
Starcraft II:
36 missions <i>per part.</i>
108 missions <i>total.</i>
+free online support
+numerous units in addition to all (most) of the originals
Blizzard selling the trilogy as one unit would be like the Orange Box only being two dollars.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->No, it would be like the Orange box.
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