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Just a quick comment, I believe I lack much of experience with fantasy (I have however read HIM and am very fond of them) and literature compared to most of you so I don't have much authority on the subject (plus it's 3'o clock in the morning around here and I only have time to read the first page of this thread).
I believe that Tolkien was more of a poet than an author. His greatest strenght lies in conjuring up wonderful pictures, using analogues and adjectives that create visions in the reader's head. The Lord of the Rings is in that way similar to works like the Iliad (which I love very much), some characters are very well fleshed out (as already mentioned many times) while others are there more for the purpose of soming with the right words at the right time.
Became a bit shorter than originally intended...Hope I made some sense.
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Auta i lomë! Aurë entuluva!
"Take no heed! We speak as is right, and as King Finwë himself did before he was led astray. We are his heirs by right and the elder house. Let them sá-sí, if they can speak no better."
-Son of the Therindë
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