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Understood. After all that is all you can do, just say. Not as if you can put up a critique defending the books.
I'm supposed to pen an essay at your command?
It is a style of writing that has long gone out of fashion. Hopefully for good. The story is basic saga quest fantasy, Originally done by the greeks in such as jason or hercules stories. Tolkien just used elves and goblins instead of men. Unfortunately that style was full of descriptive narratives that had nothing to do with the story. Great if a person had little better to occupy their time but read a book by candle light because electricity had not been invented. but a waste of time for a modern reqadership.
And obviously you know nothing about how the style of writing has changed over the years. Tolkien still belonged to an era of the style of writing that has long since gone. Nor have i said anything of his knowledge only of the style of his writing. That he brings all this he has learned together and still mananges to produce a book where anyone could easily skip pass the boring poetry or tedious descriptions to try and follow the story line means he still created a book not really worth the time and effort to read.
You seem to be confusing your personal preference for an objective fact.
Plenty of other people consider Tolkien to be a stellar author and his language to be very eloquent.
Repeatedly mocking Tolkien is not going to change either of those two things.
If eloquent prose, masterful structure, and extensive reflection on the human condition aren't your thing, go for a Dan Brown book.
Oh dear! Nothing left but the good ol' fallacy of Argumentum ad populum. Try actually critiquing the book itself instead of advertising that if millions jumped off a cliff you would blindly follow them as well.
You say that, but then you seemed to think this was a critique:
Really! Why? If i had to put up with one more of his interminable vacuous elf poems i would thrown the book at the wall. I skipped many pages of laborious and completley unessential descriptive narratives . His writing style made moby dick look like a racy novella.
Saying nasty things about an author and about the people who like that author's work is not a "critique". Sounds like you prefer books that are the verbal equivalent of a shoot 'em up action movie. That's fine, I suppose, but you really are missing out.
Still...
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