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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I read that. It was one of the most boring tedious plodding books I've ever read.
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The Simarillion is deliberately written in emulation of the style of "heroic epics" and if you've never encountered that particular literary
genre then it's going to appear pretty wierd. For people who've read epics, whether the "Homeric" ones or later Germanic or English ones, it's a familiar writing style.
Eg compare it to the style of the English translation of the 3rd century BC epic "The Argonautica" (the story of Jason and the Argonauts) that I posted a few days ago, and you'll find the style of that to be very like that of the Silmarillion.