{"id":112811,"date":"2022-04-07T09:01:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T14:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=112811"},"modified":"2022-04-07T09:01:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T14:01:47","slug":"tolkien-books-rise-to-the-top-of-amazons-latest-book-sales-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2022\/04\/07\/112811-tolkien-books-rise-to-the-top-of-amazons-latest-book-sales-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Books Rise to the Top of Amazon&#8217;s Latest Charts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"intro\">Amazon&#8217;s latest book sales chart <a href=\"https:\/\/amazonadviser.com\/2022\/04\/06\/sold-amazon-books-march-27\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reveal<\/a> that J.R.R. Tolkien books now occupy five of the top 20 spots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The charts for the week of March 27 show the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings in spots #3, #5, and #7, while sales of The Hobbit meant it slotted in at #4. The real surprise, though, is that Tolkien&#8217;s posthumously published novel The Silmarillion sold well enough to enter the charts at #12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apparently this is the first time that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?s=Silmarillion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"The Silmarillion\">The Silmarillion<\/a> has reached the top strata of the Amazon sales charts. The result might indicate that Amazon Studios&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/category\/amazon-tv-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"Rings of Power\">Rings of Power<\/a> series is creating a wider interest in Tolkien&#8217;s First Age myths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"230\" height=\"335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/the-silmarillion.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-77264 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/the-silmarillion.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/the-silmarillion-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon&#8217;s latest book sales chart reveal that J.R.R. Tolkien books now occupy five of the top 20 spots&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":77264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1362,36,35,38,98,149,37,152],"tags":[2327,3806,2856,3807,1897,221],"class_list":["post-112811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-fotr-book","category-lotr-books","category-rotk-book","category-silmarillion","category-lotr","category-ttt-book","category-tolkien","tag-amazon","tag-book-sales","tag-lotr","tag-novels","tag-silmarillion-2","tag-the-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/the-silmarillion.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-tlx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112811"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112821,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112811\/revisions\/112821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}