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Oh dear, I'd never thought of Chaucer as an author of our era. Nor as particularly of an adolescent flavour.
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No? If you ask me, a good deal of
The Canterbury Tales IS rather adolescent.
I think it's clearly true that Tolkien's avoidance of lust and such in his tales is unusual, but I don't see that he should be blamed for it. If you ask me, he improved on traditional faerie stories in several ways, including this. If Tolkien is more mature than many of his predecessors, then I say good for him.