Thread:AVoraciousReader/@comment-28083312-20170611211035/@comment-28083312-20170611221956

Well it is, but there’s so much that happens, & with battles so titanic that it makes the War of the Ring sound like a minor dispute, it’s an impressive read. The only problem with it is that Tolkien doesn’t follow any set of main characters, he just narrates the events dispassionately from a distance & it makes the battles seem less impressive than they are, even when you compare the scale. For example, the War of Wrath was so massive that it literally sunk continents & raised new ones, & yet that is considered one of the lesser battles between the Valar & Morgoth.