Think a fair number of folk have trouble with the old style of English that Tolkien used in his writing. I know that the first time I read LotR, it was troublesome until I got used to the language flow. After that, I was fine. Dennis McKiernan writes in a similar fashion, and I completely forgot to mention his Mythgar world and Julian May's Pliocene Exiles world as a couple of my favorites along with the world of Larry Niven's The Magic Goes Away.