Tolkien-fanatics, don´t read this, please...

Rearranging the content of my bookshelf I was flabbergasted by the sheer amount of Tolkien´s books I have acquired in the course of time. At some point of time I must have been fanatic, purchasing one book after another, studying the content...then came the "Children of Hurin", and along with it the epiphany that "The Hobbit" was the only book that showed authorial competency. The rest? Not worth reading in terms of literary demand, I think. Tolkien is not what one would call a gifted writer. But he has endowed us with an adventure playground that couldn´t be any better: Middle-earth! Elves, dwarfes, the Valar, the First Age, filled with drama, languages self thought out, timetables of battles and other important events and the striving for perfectioning his own universe, that´s what makes Tolkien noteworthy, not unbelievably long sentences crammed full of names, characters that change their names in the blink of an eye, five times per book if possible. I did feel with the elves of the first age, I shared Frodo´s pain, but there were so few characters that were near and dear to me. Glorfindel, Elrond, I´m pretty sure there must have been some more...Anyway, I kept the books. I did not have the heart to give them away. It´s too soon. I still remember my folly!