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Old 06-24-2022, 05:41 PM   #13
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The one silver lining from what to me looks like a quick cash-grab, is that the more people who read what Tolkien actually wrote about the Second Age - and presumably the target audience is potential Amazon viewers - the more will realize how much the TV show has absolutely nothing to do with it.
I think it depends on whether the individual's first exposure to Tolkien was on film, or in print.

Tolkien had a distinctive writing style, of which I am highly enamored. His phrasing and word choice has always been one of the things I enjoy most when reading him. It could be seen as rather archaic to the modern reader, though. I can picture a first-time reader, weaned on the films, becoming bored pretty quickly.
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