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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
The book is frequently written like it's retelling an epic poem translated from old English. That's Tolkein's wheelhouse given his expertise and background, and why it reads differently from a fantasy novel written by someone whose wheelhouse is pulp fiction.
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It was also never writen as a book, Tolkien wasn't an author, he was an academic and teacher who scribbled down ideas, wrote partial narratives wholly unrelated and then collated it into a story, it's why the book has these odd 'sections', the party, the shire, Tom Bombadil and the old forest, then the story proper, the Quest, and then in the end the rising of the shire, they all kind of work together but they clearly weren't written in a linier narrative as part of an overall plan