I loved the incorporation of folklore, as well as the portrayal of the varying perspectives of the different characters (it switches narrators by chapter) and how they think in fundamentally different ways. The ableism in the book is not the author’s prejudice, but the actions of the antagonist. (For those of you leaving bad reviews, I’m sure that J. R. Tolkien didn’t endorse the stuff that Sauron did, even though he created the character.)