Reading Tolkien's books was liberating for me, where writing is concerned. Before, I'd been restricted by the kind of language we use today, and I felt almost embarrassed to use a wide vocabulary and proper grammar and so on. I know it sounds as though I must have been a terrible writer - perhaps I was. Perhaps I am. But reading works by Tolkien and realising that language doesn't have to be perfectly simple to be popular really freed me.
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"Her name was Nenlauriel, but they called her Rûthwen, because her anger seemed ever constant and ever flowing from her grey eyes."
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