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Lord of The Rings. A place to discuss Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit, and any of Tolkien's work! Founded 2010 ยท 1.3M members

1.3M members. The best post we have captured here reached 78.2K upvotes, which works out to 58 per 1,000 members.

58peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.3Mmembers
78.2Kbest post
10.8Kmost comments
1.1Kposts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

37% 19% 19% 14% 10%
Image 37% Gallery 19% Text 19% Question 14% Video 10% Link 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Movies 232 Books 140 Fan Creations 133 Question 123 Other 111 Lore 41 Video Games 35 Costumes 24 Music 18 TV Series 13

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

4 years, 4 Hobbits, 5 Photos, one giant amount of #Hobbitception! One fan to rule them all ๐Ÿ˜‚

โ†‘ 78.2K ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1.1K gallery 2022

Absolutely pathetic from the Academy.

โ†‘ 77.8K ๐Ÿ’ฌ 823 image 2025

Elijah Wood is a beautiful human being.

โ†‘ 75.8K ๐Ÿ’ฌ 542 image 2025

Got to debut my Witch Queen of Angmar costume tonight!

โ†‘ 73.8K ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1.1K gallery 2024

Elijah Wood crashing a wedding!

โ†‘ 71.7K ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1.2K video 2025

I wanted my partner to be Arwen but she insisted on Gimli.

โ†‘ 66.6K ๐Ÿ’ฌ 652 image 2024

Cool mom unlocked โœ…

โ†‘ 53.6K ๐Ÿ’ฌ 588 image 2025

Karl Urban and Viggo Mortensen buying Gundam in Japan in 2003

โ†‘ 53.1K ๐Ÿ’ฌ 669 image 2024

My Lurtz Cosplay from Lord of the Rings (All handmade by me!)

โ†‘ 52K ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1.8K gallery 2025

Legolas being able to walk on top of the snow is one of the best small details in the films.

โ†‘ 47.3K ๐Ÿ’ฌ 527 image 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/lotr, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/lotr?
r/lotr ("Lord of The Rings") describes itself this way: A place to discuss Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit, and any of Tolkien's work. It was founded in 2010 and has 1.3M members.
How many members does r/lotr have?
r/lotr has about 1.3M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.1K of its posts; the biggest reached 78.2K upvotes, which is 58 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/lotr?
"4 years, 4 Hobbits, 5 Photos, one giant amount of #Hobbitception! One fan to rule them all ๐Ÿ˜‚" reached 78.2K upvotes and 1.1K comments in 2022, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/lotr.
What subreddits are similar to r/lotr?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/illinois, r/alberta, r/massachusetts, r/goodnews, r/AnarchyChess.
What kind of posts do best on r/lotr?
Of the posts we hold, 37% are image posts and 19% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/lotr?
Across 1.1K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 16:00 UTC (19.1K avg upvotes), Monday at 11:00 UTC (17.8K avg upvotes), Thursday at 12:00 UTC (17.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/lotr?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/lotr has 41K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 321 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/lotr, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.