Word Count

Posts word count (WC). Includes everything in blogpost (file); includes notes, acknowledgements, references, postscripts; excludes titles, image captions, comments. Average (av.) is average WC per post.
 
2023; 10 posts; WC 7482; av. 748
2024; 19 posts; WC 25155; av. 1324
2025; 12 posts; WC 9246; av. 771
2026; 3 posts; WC 3405; av. 1135
GLOBAL; 44 posts; WC 45288; av. 1029
 
2023
blog1; 16.11.23; WC 1163
The Silmarillion — Collector's Edition (1982)
blog2; 28.10.23; WC 507
Das Silmarillion: Three Editions from the 1980's
blog3; 01.11.23; WC 95
How Beautifully Your Bindings Open!
blog4; 04.11.23; WC 436
Christopher Tolkien's Unpublished “The History of the Silmarillion”
blog5; 12.11.23; WC 772 
Book Provenance: Exhuming Jackson's Price-Codes
blog6; 14.11.23; WC 841
Tenuous Connections: The Left's Promotion of The Silmarillion
blog7; 25.11.23; WC 1268
Philobiblon: Quod Thesaurus Sapientiae Potissime Sit In Libris
blog8; 01.12.23; WC 733
Proof of Typesetting: Fรซanรกro[.] and Ulmo's Troublesome Italics
blog9; 12.12.23; WC 415
The Folio Library's Sacred Sequence
blog10; 26.12.23; WC 1252
The Silmarillion — Clowes Methuen (1977)
 
2024
blog11; 01.01.24; WC 544
[The] Silmarillion. Stockholm AWEGebers. Ny Upplaga, 1987 [...]
blog12; 10.01.24; WC 1794
Bibliomaniac in Alberta: Ex Libris Christopher Gordon-Craig
blog13; 23.01.24; WC 1811
Bibliographical Terminology: Excerpt from an Imagined Catalogue
blog14; 05.02.24; WC 606
The First Edition: Book-List(s) and Cataloguing
blog15; 22.02.24; WC 1193
The Silmarillion — Clowes Dummy (1977)
blog16; 03.03.24; WC 909
Med 8vo: the Abandonment of Format Description
blog17; 11.03.24; WC 903
Gebrochene Rรผcken: Edelpappband-Style Quenta Rebind
blog18; 01.04.24; WC 1634
Running Easily Down Through the Wood: Ex Libris Richard Adams
blog19; 16.04.24; WC 1088
July 29th 1977: The Cafรฉ Royal (R.S.V.P. Rayner Unwin)
blog20; 12.05.24; WC 1335
For People Who Cannot Read the Pictures
blog21; 22.05.24; WC 734
Fire & Water: Harper's Torch and Collins' Fountain
blog22; 09.06.24; WC 1691
The Silmarillion — Clowes Book Club (1977) [WC 1691]
blog23; 25.06.24; WC 317
F.A. 472 [1977], Eithel Sirion [p. 190]. Host of Fingon, asssembled [...]
blog24; 17.07.24; WC 1810
Officina Bodoni: A Note on Hans Mardersteig
blog25; 03.08.24; WC 730
Gebrochene Rรผcken: Quarter-Vellum Akallabรชth Rebind
blog26; 01.09.24; WC 1985
Blocking Style: Lord Halsbury and Messrs. Whiley's Newvap Gold
blog27; 01.10.24; WC 2297
Stampato in Italia: Rotolito Lombarda SpA, 1998–2002
blog28; 03.11.24; WC 1799
Grey Scree Studded with Cushions of Green: G. E. Selby's Durham Garden
blog29 05.12.24; WC 1975
Price Net £4.95: Re-Pricing of The Silmarillion 1977–1992
 
2025
blog30; 01.01.25; WC 407 
Hawthorn by Mike Daines: a Typeface for The Silmarillion
blog31; 02.02.25; WC 848
Gebrochene Rรผcken: Tight-Back Silmarillion Index Rebind
blog32; 01.03.25; WC 1962
The Silmarillion — Taiwan Edition (1977)
blog33; 05.04.25; WC 300
Eleven Views of The Silmarillion
blog34; 25.05.25; WC 468
Clowes Methuen: Going for $100, Duff Last Heard
blog35; 18.06.25; WC 510
Removing Gary Nored’s Staples
blog36; 19.07.25; WC 1071
1982 Collector's Edition: Numbering Detail–Stet
blog37; 26.08.25; WC 876
Variorum “Silmarillion”: One Day, Conceivably
blog38; 21.09.25; WC 611
1979 First Paperback: Six Price Variants
blog39; 12.10.25; WC 388
In Bodmin/In Glasgow: Two 1994 BCA Variants of S.
blog40; 28.11.25; WC 1742
The Silmarillion — Clowes First State (Cloth Binding Variant) (1977)
blog41; 20.12.25; WC 63
Small Notebook No.1
 
2026
blog42; 02.01.26; WC 1002
Twenty-Eight Paper Bodies: Tsundoku and Project 24
blog43; 01.02.26; WC 751 
Preface to an Imagined Catalogue: Why Collect The Silmarillion?
blog44; 01.03.26; WC 1652
The Silmarillion — Clowes First State (Paper Binding Variant) (1977)
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