[CaptainCrunch]

I read the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy when I was young. I read the Solmarillion when I was a bit older and found that it was almost like the bible of Middle Earth.

when I tried to re-read the books later on, I found myself blip reading things, you know they're walking they're walking they're walking, oh crap now they're singing.

If there was a criticism that I had about the writing it was the pacing, there were points where it just dragged to much. Especially after Mount Doom.

But reading the Silmarillion I for a time was really fascinated by the character of Sauron, and the utter tragedy of the 9 kings who became the Nazgul.

I thought that the villains were much more dimensional and fleshed out characters, which is the usual down fall of the hero concept.