What the Critics Said About the Lord of the Rings When it Came Out
They retched and kvetched, wailed and flailed, gasped and grasped for explanations.
The literary establishment in England was stunned when a major bookstore chain polled English-speaking readers on which book of the twentieth century they considered the greatest. The Lord of the Rings won by a large margin.
Three times the poll was broadened: to a worldwide readership, into cyberspace via Amazon, and even to “the greatest book of the m…
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