The books wouldn't be considered a trilogy because LOTR is a sequel to The Hobbit.
However, as we're in Movieworld I'd say it's safe to assume that he meant the films which were in fact made as a trilogy. Any noob knows that.One of the most popular "trilogies" of fantasy books, The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, is not a trilogy, though it is often referred to as such. Tolkien regarded it as a single work and divided it into a prologue, six books, and five appendices. Because of post-World War II paper shortages, it was originally published in three volumes. Sir Stanley Unwin, Tolkien's publisher, also split the novel into three parts to garner separate book reviews for each book of the 'trilogy', and thus (hopefully) spike book sales. It is still most commonly sold as three volumes, but has also been published in one-volume and seven-volume editions (as it is also split into six books and the appendices).
In answer to the thread starter, I liked the original Star Wars trilogy the best. Far more exciting, the heroes are less black and white than LOTR, the characters are infinitely more interesting and it's about 18 hours shorter in total.
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