I finally read The Hobbit

[Scotteq]

Same here, to the point that I had a problem finishing it. There were so many unnecessary and unneeded descriptions everywhere!

Normal author: "The old tree wafted in the breeze as a bluebird perched on its dead branch."

Tolkien: "The old tree- planted in the 2nd Age of Agronon as a tribute to the Flataets during the Feast of Morgathar as was tradition for the Elves in the northern villages of Dramagon -creaked in the stout winds that descended from the snow-topped Ritku mountains, which were only recently rendered in snow after the battle of the Frost Dragons and the Grey Wizards usurped the peaks into a permanent chill, and this stout wind filled the fields below it, encircling this very tree, upon which a bird...the bird some knew as Blantonicor...made its roost.

Tolkien wasn't the greatest author....

...but he more than made up for it in Storytelling. ^_^