At least those silly reviews that used to crop up regularly in the 80's and 90's from people who read the first couple of chapters of LOTR, gave up and decided 'Tolkien doesn't write well' seem to have finally stopped coming at last. I wanted to shake them and say: No, silly reviewers, consider the possibility that Tolkien writes with a masterly control of English, but you might just be missing the nuances... :-D
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Date: 2016-03-14 08:24 am (UTC)At least those silly reviews that used to crop up regularly in the 80's and 90's from people who read the first couple of chapters of LOTR, gave up and decided 'Tolkien doesn't write well' seem to have finally stopped coming at last. I wanted to shake them and say: No, silly reviewers, consider the possibility that Tolkien writes with a masterly control of English, but you might just be missing the nuances... :-D