InterestingAsk1978 t1_jealfep wrote on March 30, 2023 at 4:54 PM

You are reading an old(er) version of the language, that's why it sounds bad.

But the ideas are great. You just have to go through the language.

Try Silmarillion. It's about the making of the old world and the fight against the first Dark Lord, Sauron's master. The storyline is even better ... and the language even older-fashioned.

Objective-Mirror2564 t1_jeaxb7t wrote on March 30, 2023 at 6:10 PM

If OP thinks Fellowship is hard to read. Don't make them read Silmarillion. It. Is. Worse. I mean it's basically Tolkien's magnum opus. And language is even more descriptive than in the earlier books.