I like him, but for me, it’s Stephen King, a lot of his stories he goes off on a twenty page non-relevant rant.
Though, the ones where he keeps that to a minimum, are great.
Then there’s Mr. Marketer James Patterson who markets out his name to other authors making it look like he wrote the book when it was obviously someone else.
He wrote several books (but you knew that).
D&D exists in large part because of what he wrote, not the other way around. He wrote what he wrote because he wanted to create a modern myth for the English-speaking world, an ambition which he succeeded in.
As for language and the shape of the words, the tone of LotR is unique, and distinctly different from The Hobbit or even The Silmarillion. There is beauty and timelessness in the prose that many editors would just not allow for these days.
Few have been able to even come near what he did in creating his system of names, places, and world building. Tolkien’s work is the high bar against which all other world building is measured.
Even if he’d only written Lord of the Rings, at 579K words, it’s roughly equivalent to 6 or 7 full-length novels. Being an author wasn’t his primary job, he was a linguist by training. But he certainly was a “real author” as we have his books to prove it.
So troll successful, I guess.
Yeah, yeah, he was an innovator. So was Henry Ford with his Model T, but in the year 2023 for commuting you would choose a Toyota over the ‘T’ 100.0% of the time.
Bro its not a troll and i specifically said it wasnt a slight. Jesus. Im not literally disputing that he was an author and to imply i was is going out of your way to assume im am idiot or malicious. Maybe calm down.