It's interesting how different folks approach his oeuvre --- I have a fairly extensive collection:
https://www.reddit.com/r/tolkienbooks/comments/1oa01zr/four_...
and as implied in that link, have been reading his work since I was quite young, and dipped into the scholarship and linguistic angle when I picked up the paperback edition of _A Tolkien Compass_ in the early 80s.
It's interesting how different folks approach his oeuvre --- I have a fairly extensive collection:
https://www.reddit.com/r/tolkienbooks/comments/1oa01zr/four_...
and as implied in that link, have been reading his work since I was quite young, and dipped into the scholarship and linguistic angle when I picked up the paperback edition of _A Tolkien Compass_ in the early 80s.