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Originally Posted by Ithekro
The Silmarillion bored me when I read it. But then it was the first Tolkien novel I read, so I have no context for that world. So it read to me like the Bible. If the Peter Jackson films had not come out, I probably would not have read Tolkien's other novels. (I was required to read the Silmarillion for a college course.)
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The Silmarillion was written intentionally to read like a "bible" or sage of mythologies -- it never really was meant as more than background reference to document the mythos the people of LOTR grew up with.