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[–] Eq0@literature.cafe 3 points 2 days ago

Admittedly, a lot of the Lord of the Rings is very dry. While descriptions are vibrant and world building is incredible, characters are mostly flat and hardly relatable, outside of the great epical moments the rest of the books are mundane I would say.