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Originally Posted by sarakoth  A key difference between Tolkien and many modern fantasy authors are their writing styles. Tolkien wrote his novels as if he was a loremaster telling an ancient legend to a group of young men and women. Modern authors use a more contemporary style with dialogue fairly similar to normal speech. |
I see what you mean here, Sarakoth, but most of LotR is written in a style that mirrors the turn of speech of the first half of the 20th century - it's only occasionally, and at appropriate momements, that he goes into a "High Fantasy" style. Most readers when the books were published wouldn't see anything archaic about the majority of the language used, or the style of writing.
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Originally Posted by sarakoth Also, Tolkien's orcs are grey while modern orcs are green.  |
The only colour Tolkien uses to describe them is black, as far as I know. I'd be interested to know where you found a reference in any of the books to grey orcs...