If Tolkien was a Norse minstrel telling us tales at a pub, his writing style would be easy to overlook, especially with the great plot going on in LOTR. Unfortunately that's not the case and the writing style still hinders my enjoyment of the books.
Someone should rewrite the series to (1) make the reading itself more interesting and (2) really piss off the die hard fans.
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