> In 1956, the literary critic Edmund Wilson wrote a review entitled "Oo, Those Awful Orcs!", calling Tolkien's work "juvenile trash", and saying "Dr. Tolkien has little skill at narrative and no instinct for literary form."

I would love to dismantle this criticism piece by piece, but others would no doubt be delighted to do that in my stead. I'm just going to say that the year is 2022 and absolutely no one remembers who the fuck Edmund Wilson was, while Tolkien is one of the best-selling authors of all time and his books sell millions of copies every month even half a century after his death. For a man with supposedly no skill at narrative, hundreds of millions of people have thoroughly enjoyed his narrative. How many movies have been made based on Wilson's books? That's right...