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Title: Wonderful imagination, but mediocre and redundant writing
Review: After reading Harry Potter and the Chronicles of Narnia, I was very interested in other books by the authors that these have been compared to. I picked up Fellowship of the Ring, and I made my way through it, determined to read it. Tolkien has a wonderful imagination, but the plot is a bit redundant and the writing is hard to understand at points. I have read other works far more advanced, so my lack of understanding is not from being uneducated. It just doesn't flow. My two stars were for his imagination, because I respect anyone who takes a chance with the creation of another world. Bottom line: While he has an imagination, this is a book you might have to struggle with because of it's mediocre writing.
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