Agree totally.Creed wrote:I think its really nice with all the descriptions of everything. That way you can really get the feel of the location you're in.
It helps me create the movie of the story in my head, and such makes it even more full, than it would have been, if he only wrote the parts with the "action".
Its not over the top in the LOTR or the hobbit, he is revealing only certain parts relevant to the current story. It could be a bit overwhelming in the Silmarillion where the story jumps around and one may not be connected to the next and your brain is trying to remember who did what before and what the relevance of things is.
I also found getting used to this maybe spoiled some of the more "lightweight" books for me a little bit.