Talk:Literary reception of The Lord of the Rings

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The reception areas need to be redone. The reviews written there are pathetically biased and negative to one of the greatest writers of all time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JoshuaTedder (talk • contribs) 20:29, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

LOL. They are just jealous that they never wrote anything as wonderful as these books are.