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r/tolkienbooks

42K members. The best post we have captured here reached 937 upvotes, which works out to 22 per 1,000 members.

22peak upvotes per 1,000 members
42Kmembers
937best post
98most comments
300posts 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.

39% 36% 10%
Gallery 39% Image 36% Text 10% Question 7% Link 4% Video 1% Poll 1%

What the ceiling looks like

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

Newly added to my collection

↑ 937 💬 34 gallery 2026

Walking through a charity bookshop and found these!

↑ 872 💬 28 gallery 2026

Already time for my annual re-read cycle, in true hobbit fashion this year.

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A thing of beauty

↑ 672 💬 15 image 2026

My Tolkien Book Collection

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I bought the ugly 80s set, so you don’t have to.

↑ 545 💬 98 gallery 2026

My Lifetime Tolkien Collection

↑ 486 💬 38 gallery 2026

Leather Rebinding done!

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Tolkien collection update

↑ 372 💬 38 gallery 2026

Hey! Here's my latest book representing Gandalf saving Faramir and the Riders 🧙🏻‍♂️🐎 and the continuity with Osgiliath and Minas Tirith 👌🏻

↑ 350 💬 25 gallery 2026

Communities its size

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

r/tolkienbooks, in numbers

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

How many members does r/tolkienbooks have?
r/tolkienbooks has about 42K members. ViralHunt has tracked 300 of its posts; the biggest reached 937 upvotes, which is 22 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/tolkienbooks?
"Newly added to my collection" reached 937 upvotes and 34 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/tolkienbooks.
What subreddits are similar to r/tolkienbooks?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/CzechCoconutCommunity, r/InterviewMan, r/news2, r/bondmarket, r/themayormccheese, r/greenland.
What kind of posts do best on r/tolkienbooks?
Of the posts we hold, 39% are gallery posts and 36% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/tolkienbooks?
Across 300 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 00:00 UTC (460 avg upvotes), Saturday at 14:00 UTC (203 avg upvotes), Monday at 14:00 UTC (178 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. 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/tolkienbooks?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/tolkienbooks has 288 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 113 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/tolkienbooks, 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.