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Yeah he's a linguist/historian before a writer, which shows in the pacing of the second two books, but his mythos and its presentation is one of the most important artistic achievements of this century. He's like if Ayn Rand had written Atlas Shrugged but didn't forget to make his story entertaining.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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