I also know a score of Tolkien readers, a few of them Brits, who would very much disagree with Tolkien being read as a “hack-n-slash”, and these chaps are really hardcore, they read The Hobbit every year. They are actually very much rejoicing in the cosy miasma (I may be using the term unrelated to the concept which you expressed) of the book. Certainly Tolkien’s apologists disagree with you, I am sorry to say, “hack-n-slash” are really not the virtues they extol in his works.
Tolkienesque.

Inspired by Tolkien, but not really like Tolkien. Important thing to note.
That should do it.

1.Resembling or influenced by the works, ideas, or literary style of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973).
What Moorcock does not like is the bold. I get that. That's done, then?

I can’t honestly say you made a dent in this conclusion, and I am really not writing this to provoke you.
EDIT: Oh and "picking on his lines", as you put, is exactly how you should always argument your positions, as opposed to generic judgements.
Dare I say that it wasn't warranted? :P

But I wasn't hoping to provoke a debate about the social impact of Tolkien, so that's fine.

As to the essay you linked, it was the smartest piece I read today by far (and I read it whole; more than ten hours ago; it simply did not contradict any of my arguments), and I thank you for introducing me to its author and I thank its author for introducing me to Koselleck, I’ve enjoyed it so much reading it over lunch today that I ordered both
The Practice of Conceptual History: Timing History, Spacing Concepts (Cultural Memory in the Present) and
Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought.) without even researching his biography – if you’d know me in life, you’d know why this is a big deal, I’m the type of neat freak who doesn’t even download a movie without reading its reviews for two hours. Wish I had read him six years ago during my Semiotics and Imagology courses.
Our entire exchange has been a mechanism of control designed to influence you into following this path.