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I had no problems reading either LotR or the Silmarillion in the early nineties, and my English was a lot worse then (they were translated into Estonian several years later, I have not read the translations). But English being my second language may actually have been the reason I breezed through them; at the time I was used to serious, official, even antiquated English from reading some English-language classics in high school. It was the everyday English with lots of slang and colloquialisms I was not familiar with. So I found Tolkien no struggle at all, while I struggled with modern, contemporary novels I started to read a bit later on.
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