No, you are right. It's true I have certain preferences, which come across in both Czech and English, within my self-expression. I, for one, lament and despise the fact that all languages tend to be simplified over time and that we are leaving some of the beauty of the past far behind. In Czech, for example, I am one of the few people I know who still uses
transgressives even in speech - which is usually seen as archaic or literary, definitely uncommon and old-fashioned. Although with their elimination, we are even losing the ways to express what we used to be able to; by using transgressives in Czech, we used to be able to use future perfect or past perfect tense once, for example... but I realise that's a "me thing".
Also, yeah, I'm old fashioned and poetic by nature, I like to read stuff like that and I dislike the general development of prose, whether it's been caused by Hemingway or television. As an amateur Medievalist and lay theologian (and originally more of a poet than a prose writer), I have these ... queer tendencies. Like, I don't want to write or read about dwarves (or dwarfs), I want my dwarf to be a
dwergh (pl.:
dwerghes or yet better,
dwarrows). I shiver with excitement from the idea of someone who'd "
hasten to heed thy rede". Of your enemies being
"worsted". (while I recognise these terms'
abstrusity 
)
Or, from the less autistic side, when Williams writes something like
"No, life in the forest was not a tenth so glorious as he had imagined it in those long-ago Hayholt afternoons, crouching in the stables smelling hay and tack leather, listening to Shem’s stories. The mighty Oldheart was a dark and miserly host, jealous of doling comforts out to strangers. Hiding in thorny brush to sleep away the hours of sun, making his damp, shivering way through the darkness beneath the tree-netted moon, or scuttling furtively through the garden plots in his sagging, too-large cloak, Simon knew he was more rabbit than rogue."
I feel such pure bliss it seems I could almost live off the words alone, sating all my needs solely by that.
That said, I should be aware of the fact people in general don't want that - don't like that. People like simpler stuff ... and say even of Tolkien that he's too flowery and old-fashioned. Heck, already more than once I've seen the notion that even wanting to have proper grammar is "a classist notion".
(although it's true that even fantasy fans - i. e. fans of genre literature - tend to like Tad Williams or even Pat Rothfuss, who definitely go against the flow in that regard)
So I guess it's a bit about balance - both bridling the worst excesses and idiosyncrasies
and being prepared for accusations of elitism, classism, puerility or pretentiousness, consoling myself with the notion of being an artist of unquestionable integrity or a weirdo – maybe a bit of both.
But that's not necessarily a second language thing for me, like I said, I'm like that in my native tongue also.
