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It's not the best prose ever - but hey, author himself warns that he doesn't consider him a proper writer. Fair's fair - I still think it deserves those five stars :)I liked the idea, I liked the execution. If I were to nitpick: most of the this book's characters that are also present in The Lord of the Rings are channeling same mixture of disdain and nonchalance. “Hey, I seemed really silly in that other book, so here I'll act cool and seem really smart”. But like I said, it's just a smaller nitpick. It'd be funny to see an analysis of The Last Ringbearer that tries to find errors in it, in a similar way that Yeskov did - but that would be annoyingly meta.If you're not religious about Tolkien's prose - read this. You'll have fun. If you are, you'd better stay away.
It's not the best prose ever - but hey, author himself warns that he doesn't consider him a proper writer. Fair's fair - I still think it deserves those five stars :)I liked the idea, I liked the execution. If I were to nitpick: most of the this book's characters that are also present in The Lord of the Rings are channeling same mixture of disdain and nonchalance. “Hey, I seemed really silly in that other book, so here I'll act cool and seem really smart”. But like I said, it's just a smaller nitpick. It'd be funny to see an analysis of The Last Ringbearer that tries to find errors in it, in a similar way that Yeskov did - but that would be annoyingly meta.If you're not religious about Tolkien's prose - read this. You'll have fun. If you are, you'd better stay away.