This may sound cliche, but my standard for a good author is that they have to "whisk you away" into whatever land that they're talking about. For example, whenever I read LotR, I feel like I've been picked up and plopped down in Middle-earth.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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