The Gest of Beren and Lúthien

[Dwarven Warrior]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

To put it kindly, I am glad he turned to prose. I don't think poetry was his strongest suit -certainly not this sort. The good stuff in my opinion are the oneshe wrote for the LOTR battles.

As man who spoke over thirteen predominantly "dead" languages, Tolkien was incredibly familiar with cultures whose epics were written in song verse. Your right about the best part of Tolkien's poems being the battles. In epic anglo-saxon myths the battles usually are.