@criver sophistry? what tf are you on about lol. for all of the author's shortcomings as a writer, i don't he ever tried to push shit down our throats. that's why r**ards think it's all nazi propaganda or sum shit. yea, it's not perfect, but the themes and symbolism are really engaging and the characters, even if they aren't really likeable (non of them are, tbh), the role they play in the story, what they "represent" is much more interesting to me. I see it going for a LotR-like scale. I don't really think Tolkien was giving much thought about if Frodo, Sam, Gandalf or Aragorn were "good characters" in a traditional story-telling way, but much more what role they played and what they represented in the story.
It's an epic, it should be read in an epic scale. i don't really mind the minor issues because of the massive scale it is going for. It's aiming for masterpiece, no 2nd place. I respect that.
It's not a perfect story, but it's much more interesting than anything going on rn. and like i said, the themes and symbolism deal with deep shit. Like, nature of humanity, morality and ethics, the nature of war, history and violence.