Tolkien in Modern Times

[Hakon]

I did some searching and cannot find a thread where this point has been mentioned before. What if Tolkien was living in present day and wrote in present day? Would it still be just as good? I have been thinking about it since I read the Children of Hurin recently and was disappointed with the changes made from the text within Unfinished Tales. A lot of the words were changed to simpler ones. This can clearly be seen when Turin asks Gurthang to slay him. Anyway when I was reading it, I thought that if Tolkien had wrote in modern times then he would probably have produced work of a much lower quality. If Tolkien had wrote in modern times he would most likely have less of an inspiration and would have had a much harder time writing in general. What do you think?