"Dr. Tolkien has little skill at narrative and no instinct for literary form."
— J. R. R. Tolkien

January 1, 1970

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Sources

Edmund Wilson, "Oo, Those Awful Orcs!": A review of The Fellowship of the Ring, in The Nation (14 April 1956)