One "defect" Tolkien saw in the LoTR is that of names and the languages of the elves...he couldn't get the names to fit in with the phonology of Quenyan or Sindarin.....his two most beloved languages of Middle Earth...
...in "The History of Middle Earth 12 : The peoples of Middle Earth" there is a whole section which is devoted to it...
....this "defect" as he saw it is in most of his writings because he wrote them before fully developing the languages....but when he had developed them...he found that many of the names did not fit....and so he had to try and work them into the language structure....
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