Quote Originally Posted by diesel View Post
The Silmarillion is like an academic tome when compared with the Lord of The Rings and not easy reading,nor is it an entertainig ripping yarn by any stretch of the imagination. My advice would be to lay it down and avoid it but others may differ strongly.
Oh yeah...it's like reading a really, really, really long Russian novel with even more names and characters you'll never remember...I tried that one two or three times, eventually, just put it down....agreed!