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I read LOTR when I was 13 I think and the Hobbit was one of the first books I ever read. The good thing about reading this trilogy early is that I hadn't read my fantasy books before, may even have been the first fantasy book I read. That's probably how you are suppose to read the book too, as like one of the first fantasy books. I suppose if you've read other fantasy first you may think: LOTRs is so normal, but that's just cause everyone copied him and made elves and dwarfs and such normal, they weren't before.
I really enjoyed re-reading the books too and I think that he is a great writer. Maybe he does some things which modern fantasy writers wouldn't have done, but for me it still works very well, but most importantly of all for me is his writing style. He can write, and after reading LOTR it is often torture for me to read any other author, because although you don't appreciate how he handles the English language while your reading it, you'll miss it when you read another book afterwards. Most authors are clumsy writers and none can wield the English language like Tolkien can, but that's probably down to the fact that that was his job really, to know the language inside out and where each word came from and so on.
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