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Difficult can mean many things. I was never able to get through the Silmarillion because of the multitude of names, but I could read each sentence without difficulty. The Faerie Queene is written in an archaic style but I think it is relatively easy to read once you adjust to it.
There is difficulty on the level of not being able to grasp the ideas conveyed in a text, and more basic than that, difficulty on the level of not even being able to read a sentence.
The most difficult thing I've read is probably the excerpt of Finnegan's Wake posted here. I can't even understand it word for word, let alone sentence by sentence. Not understanding it, I don't get any of the ideas the author is trying to convey.
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