Is it just me, or are nerds like @BretDevereaux and @lymanstoneky leading a paradigm shift back to LotR as the peak of fantasy realism?
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Agreed. Part of Tolkien's 'advantage' in this regard is that he was both deeply familiar with soldiering (having done so himself) and with pre-modern constraints, being deeply immersed in pre-modern literature.
Classicists will occasionally talk about a scholars 'Latinity' - the quality of being so deeply immersed in Latin that its forms come naturally (handy, particularly when dealing with defective texts). Tolkien, I would suggest, was possessed of this sense, but for the pre-modern.
