Dale (and others) insist that Tolkien (in addition to telling a good story, which I totally concede) writes good prose. I’m rereading, for the first time in 20 years, The Hobbit. We’ll see if it’s true. The prose is as simple as the story, but I don’t know that that’s a bad thing at all.
UPDATE: I have started a long Tolkien project. It has been years since I read Lord of the Rings, and I have not read them since I did my Anglo-Saxon studies in graduate school. I’ll be re-reading them through that lens.
Filed under: Novels, Poetry/Lyrics/Epics, Tolkien/ Anglo Saxon Project | Tagged: Anglo-Saxon, Bilbo, Gandalf, Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, LOTR, Tolkien
