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[scionofgrace]

Another observation about Tolkien's writing that I hadn't made before: he uses small words.  Seriously, for all that he was a philologist, and can lapse into an old and high form of English when the story calls for it, he doesn't bother with the long and flowery even in his most evocative descriptions.  Though he takes longer than, say, C.S. Lewis (who was the master of painting a scene in a sentence), his descriptions are vivid in their simplicity of language.

You know what I decided?  Bread and butter is an excuse to eat honey.  ::loves honey::