(December 4, 2020 at 12:00 pm)Eleven Wrote: Ironically, the only negative criticism Tolkien's works seemed to receive was from English and literature experts who thought he would never be considered a great writer due to how he deviated from the norm with grammar.
Tolkien kind of admitted that himself. He said that the error he most regretted was using ‘Dwarves’ instead of the more correct ‘Dwarfs’ or ‘Dwerrows’.
That’s happens when we let philologists write books.
Boru
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