That's what you're likely to get when such an august organ as
The English Journal surveys Tolkien's
The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings books.
This coverage form the November 1969 issue shows that stuffy academics might be able to cut loose with abandoned appreciation in a bar somewhere, but they must be veddy re-fined in print.
Take a gander and survey this survey. Was this an attempt through stilted prose to win folks over? Was it a quest by a hidebound academic to figure out why his shaggy students were reading this work by a philologist?
You have three days to reread the entire trilogy, plus The Hobbit, and report back! After that, I'll see you Thursday.
