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Re:Is Tolkien Actually Any Good? (2003) by stcredzero on Saturday May 29, 2010 @10:37PM (#1389772)
I found the critique misleading. It doesn't make sense to disparage Tolkien's Middle Earth writing without taking his background into account. He was a scholar of Anglo-Saxon legends and literature written in Old Saxon, Old Norse, and Old English.

I just found the critique to be ignorant.

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