/lit/ - Literature

There's something awe-inspiring about just how much material exists for stuff like Star Wars or Warhammer; 154 complete novels (so far) in Star Wars: Legends canon (not counting stuff like gamebooks or comics, either); over 200 in the Warhammer 40k canon; most of these books are utter shit but just the sheer amount of them is impressive. Coming close behind are things like Discworld and Xanth with about 40 books total (Xanth is absolute garbage though), farther behind that is Malazan with 24, Redwall with 22, then Wheel of Time with 15, Middle-Earth with about 10 (technically only 3, LOTR, The Hobbit, and the Silmarillion), Dune with 6, so on and so forth.

With the amount of dedicated fans these universes have, I'm surprised nobody's put together something like this
>The Archive Trawl with the greatest number of faithful participants is arguably the Daf Yomi ("Daily Folio") in which, by studying an entire densely-packed Talmud folio (both sides of a page) with commentaries an hour each day, one completes the entire Talmud (over sixty tractates, or three million words) in seven and a half years.
Can you imagine something like that for LOTR? The whole Silmarillion (followed by The Hobbit, then LOTR), followed by commentary from The History of Middle-Earth (The boxed set has 5,440 pages, while a standard edition of The Silmarillion has 384 pages, The Hobbit has 300, and LOTR has 1,209 pages, for a total of 1,893 pages of Middle-Earth canon; For every 2 pages of canon, you have about 3 pages of commentary; reading 2 pages of canon and 3 pages of commentary every day, you will finish in about 2.5 years).