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I agree that he meanders, sometimes it is difficult to get through especially since he describes everything with page-long descriptions, haha. But I still think that the world that he created is beautiful, and the fact that he created his own language in detail was phenomenal.Rest_In_Pieces wrote:Well, I respect him for the imaginative, extensive world he created. But I'm not terribly fond of his writing to be honest. It's too archaic for my taste, and he meanders a lot in the plot (this is especially apparent in the first book). Still, I was a huge fan in my teens and I will always be grateful to him for giving me that whole new world to wonder about.
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A world is born again that never dies.
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The breadth of his style and imagination has allowed him to create the world of middle earth!
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To think that all this greatness came from a professor's doodles on a student exam. The student left one page blank, and so Tolkien wrote, "In a whole in the ground there lived a hobbit."
The whole magnificent world of Middle Earth came from that little doodle!
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Try reading Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next novels - you'll be pleasantly surprised at his imaginariness!Greatgatsby wrote:I think he has one of the liveliest imaginariness known to mankind.