Nah... it's an opinion.

Personally I detest Tolkien's style... he absolutely fails to put down a convincing cast and the only character I had any feeling for was poor Sauron when he was destroyed - which illustrates my point pretty well, I should expect.

Interesting story and such, but the only thing I got excited about were the nice descriptions of new places; descriptions of battles and conversation are poor. Tom Bombadil? I remember it as the point where I stopped reading for 2 years only to pick the book up again after finishing Gore Vidal's wonderful Creation.

Monk had a nicer style, but still it was my humble opinion that it was a bit poor when interaction between characters and the cast is concerned. But now it's much better, the lyric part of his text is much better.

Good job Monk



~Wiz