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I read LotR, and some pages from Hobbit (that really is children tale), nothing from Silmarillion because I decided it not worth my time. I know it is a collection of much Tolkien envisioned and put to paper, without much coherence, I imagine it's kinda like an anthology.
For the little I know, his work is a combination of assburgerish pedantry and soaring fantasy. This stuff is an outlet of his creativity, first he wanted to give some stories to his children, then himself found it fun to make up stuff. He had great many ideas, worked on all, and wanted to place them into one framework. The whole thing left unfinished.
I think many what he wrote is bound to have contradictions, leaps of logic, and plotholes why didn't they just fly in with the eagles??? - 'member?Fuking Tom Bombadil!!!!. Can be fun to poking at them, but judging him harshly for them would be a mistake.
It is hard to create a consistent world, with everything in it, from the genesis to the armageddon (or at least halfway to that). You need to know hard and soft sciences at least in some depth to create it plausibly, and this makes it impossible, it's just too big.

These days it seems movie and tv-show creators are reaching to the classics, and Tolkien is a classic in Fantasy. Two monumental movie series are already out, all his other works cannot be left without exploiting.