Tolkien just rambles on and on a lot of the time about really boring and unnecessary detail and extrapolation. Not to mention the forty-five million three-page tuneless songs in every book. Ugh. And the grammar is lacking, as is the sentence structure. I just find myself feeling like I'm slogging through a mire of jumbled words and it hurts my brain.

The posted passage is good, but for every good passage he writes, there are ten passages that make me want to fall asleep and never wake up.

I barely finished FOTR over the span of months. I didn't get that far into TTT over the span of months. It was like pulling teeth. Any book that I'm finding excuses not to pick up again are bad in my... er... book.

Anyway. I'm reading Goldfinger, currently. This version:

I also have that same version of Thunderball, which I'll probably read next.