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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
It took me six months to get through Lord of the Rings, and that was without any major pauses in reading. The somewhat antiquated writing was kind of hard to read and often had to go over a paragraph a few times to figure out what was going on.
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The Silmarillion makes LOTR seem modern. Deliberately so. The Publisher sent it back, hence posthumously published. The Hobbit is certainly easier.