[GreenLantern2814]

Re: the Silmarillion.

It helps if you read it out loud, in the best Tolkien accent you can.

And if you’ve got an illustrated copy.

Otherwise… yeah. It’s a heavy read.

I suspect the reason it was unpublished is because Tolkien himself was like “this is… a lot. Perhaps too much. One cannot read this to children at bed time, though it surely will be put them to sleep.”

Just open it to a random page and read for a bit. We are truly lucky as fans that it exists at all.