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Originally Posted by Coffee Warlord
And for my Nerd Heresy moment...Tolkien is INCREDIBLY overrated in my mind. Incredibly dry, unnecessarily verbose writing style. I'll give him credit - he absolutely set the stage for fantasy novels for decades to come. That said, he's superseded by countless other authors.
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I used to hold this exact opinion, actually. But the more I studied him, the more I did a complete 180. Yes, it's dry, yes it's verbose. But the tone is that of a chronicle detailing a world's history and monumental events. It lends LotR a gravitas that would be lacking a lighter, more vivid prose.