Fantasy novel word count The longest books are fantasy novels.The Lord of the Ringsby J.R.R. Tolkien is famous for being almost 600,000 words long. That’s spread over four volumes, includingThe Hobbit. Still, that’s an average of 150,000 words per book. You’ll have to draw a lo...
000 words. However, obvious exceptions include anything in the fantasy genreaimed at[128]young people – such as theHis Dark Materialstrilogy[129]by Philip Pullman (book 3,The Amber Spyglass, is 560pp / 150,000 words).
Science fiction and fantasy novels tend to have higher word counts than most other genres, averaging around 90,000–120,000 words, since they often need a lot of words for world building and introducing magic systems. Big, epic stories, such as George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and...
Then came The Horror, the one sparking my love of fantasy and magic and everything supernatural, which will always remain on my bookshelf.Once in class, we were assigned to write a scene inspired by Hamlet, the play we were reading. Excited about the chance to write, I worked extra ...