Why Tolkien is a Classic

Ardellis | January 19, 2007

I know people who are huge readers of SFF who have never read J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Some of them have tried and pronounced his dense, description-laden prose “boring.” Some have heard this pronouncement from others and shied away because of it. And this breaks my heart, because LotR was an omnipresent [...]