Since I can't stand fantasy fiction of any kind, I do not like Lord of the Rings. I read the first book and I wondered many times how many pages one can write just describing things I do not want to now about. And it's very heavy stuff indeed, the language isn't easy. I never tried it in German, though. The fact that "elves" had been translated with "Elben" is even for me as someone who doesn't like fantasy, absolutely terrible. Raping the German language …