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Are you getting fanfic mixed in there? There are only 3 LOTR books. An argument could even be made that they're all one book since that's how it was written, and it was the publisher that split it into 3.
No, there are 6. To quote the "note on the text" at the beginning of my 1-volume edition:
Each of the common three volumes consists of two books, which should be clearly delineated as such in any copy.
LotR is generally published in three named volumes, but each volume is broken up into two "books" (in this context, meaning a major division of a literary work, not a set of bound pages). FotR, Book II starts with the chapter "Many Meetings" (when Frodo wakes up in Rivendell).