I read about a third or half of it and got bored. I really wanted to like it, and the premise is good, but it doesn't go anywhere I found interesting. He's a big Faramir fanboy and describes Eowyn with a male gaze that made me stop reading it.

But I wanted to like Mary Gentle's Grunts, too, and I didn't like it and couldn't finish that either. Published Tolkien parody has never worked for me, and though these aren't precisely parodies, they're in that vein. Even though I role played for a few years in a parodic Tolkien universe, so I'm not adverse to parodying Tolkien.