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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dark Jezter" data-source="post: 1300522" data-attributes="member: 1015">I thought I'd made it clear in my earlier posts why, to me at least, REH's writing style is more enjoyable than Tolkien's, but apparantly I didn't. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Energy of writing is definately an important thing for me.  REH's writing style positively crackles with energy.  I also enjoy good story, good characters, appropriate descriptions, etc.When I pick up a Conan story, I can read the entire thing from start-to-finish without getting bored.  I also dearly love LotR, but I'll find myself skimming through entire sections, as well as the all the poetry pieces.Tolkien really did an incredible job of world-building; creating entire languages and writing long, detailed histories of the different races and kingdoms in his world (well, except for the hobbits, they just sorta appeared out of nowhere).  His love of languages and mythology really showed in his works.  Unfortunately, he has a tendency to ramble and go off on tangents.  While this might give his world more depth, it really screws with the pacing of his story.Tolkien's stories are about the world he created.  REH's stories are about action and adventure.</blockquote>