Original data file, sporting DOS/Windows line-ending characters and inconsistent quoting behavior that breaks github's display of delimited files, can be found here:
That was very lightly processed to yield the more machine-readable file:
lotr_wordsSpoken.tsv
Actually all I did was read it into R and write it back out to file.
Context:
When creating simple examples of automated data analysis pipelines for STAT 545A, I didn't want to use simulated data and I was sick of Gapminder. So I did this. Of course.