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Do you suppose The Lord of the Rings' heavy religious motifs are the main reason Harold Bloom doesn't like it? Even though the books are not overtly Christian, their world has a guiding, divine order that is inherently good, and faith in this order is heavily present in the story; the characters express such faith numerous times. I feel like Bloom, who puts so much emphasis on a work's purely aesthetic value, would be annoyed by this.

It can't just be the trilogy's mediocre prose, because Bloom has no problem with other works whose prose is equally mediocre.