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 Lee Kaiwen <leekaiwen at ...> wrote:

> Tolkien so much more enjoyable than
> Rowling 

If you enjoy Tolkien then that's fine but I've got to tell you that
has not been my experience. I read The Hobbit and thought it we OK but
nothing to get very excited about; I've only read the first of the
Lord Of The Rings books and would have stopped reading at about page
40 if I was smart. I only finished reading the book out of a sense
duty due to a perverse idea I have that once I start a book I must
finish it. I vividly remember a feeling of dread just looking at that
damn book and knowing I had to pick it up and read more of Tolkien's
dreadful songs and more explanations of what The Forest Of Sphincter
is called in the Elfin language. JKR on the other hand is a real page
turner, nobody had to put a gun to my head to read her stuff, I always
felt that all of her books were much too short.   
 
> there are no glaring inconsistencies that
> leap up to knock you out-of-story

I also found that to be true because Tolkien was so mind numbingly
dull that I was never in his story so I didn't have to worry about
getting knocked out of it. And I can not think of any other author in
the English language that is so completely and utterly lacking a sense
of humor, in that regard Tolkien is certainly number one. But if you
get pleasure from reading Tolkien then that's good, there is no
disputing matters of taste. 

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