Night's Master

Maybe if I had read this in my teens, when reading The Silmarrilion seemed like a fun way to pass the time, this might have caught my imagination more. Unfortunately, now, this bored me; there are only so many flowery phrases and turgid metaphors that I can handle per paragraph.

Also, it may not have helped that I listened to the audio book. The intonation of the narrator was like nails on a blackboard; every sentence was delivered as if it were the finest, most beautiful prose, which might have been ok if this were poetry, but it is not.

I'll leave this as two stars, since I can imagine there is an audience for this (obviously, given the book's reputation), but unfortunately that is not me.