JRR Tolkien's second-rate prose

[Lalaith]

His storytelling was criticised which was very unfair as I have rarely read any story so well told, plotted and satisfactorily wound up as that of Lord of the Rings.

Well quite, which is why I checked the translation for "diktning" and found that it wasn't right.

imagine all the high-brow nonsense they would then proceed to utter about it discussing it in their literati talk-shows

Heren, have you *seen* the canonicity thread?