OK, but does a critic need to find fault when analysing art? No, they do not.
I could find no major faults with the work when I FIRST read it, (when you can say I had a critical eye), not just on subsequent readings.
There are some minor faults in the book, but to me the style of language is not one of them.
I find the real faults in The Silmarillion rather that lotr, but that is another post.
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