George R.R. Martin critiques Lord of the Rings and its plotholes ahead of the Amazon TV series

The Sun

“It’s one of the great books of the 20th century, but that doesn’t mean that I think it’s perfect,” the author whose book series inspired Game of Thrones said of the J.R.R. Tolkien novel recently while accepting the Burke Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Discourse through the Arts. “I keep wanting to argue with Professor Tolkien through the years about certain aspects of it."