"Tolkien spends 6 pages describing a leaf!"

Anyone else noticed this weird, recurring joke? That Tolkien spends an inordinate amount of time describing leaves, trees, etc.?

I really feel like people who say/believe this have never read anything by Tolkien. He really does not go into overwhelming physical descriptions about...anything, much less trees and leaves. It's really odd.

My guess is it stemmed from the memes about GRRM's gratuitous descriptions of food and casual LotR fans wanted to have an equivalent joke and they knew Tolkien liked nature so "idk he probably mentioned trees in those books a couple times this will make it look like I read"

Weirdest phenomenon.