Reading Lord of the Rings, and writing a quality book in the same style, are almost wholly unrelated tasks. Over 150 million copies of Lord of the Rings have be

Reading Lord of the Rings, and writing a quality book in the same style, are almost wholly unrelated tasks. Over 150 million copies of Lord of the Rings have been sold, but few readers are capable of "writing a similar book" in terms of quality. There's no reason to think this would work well.