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					Originally Posted by ManosHandsOfFate  I read LoTR when I was about 12.  I was so enamored with Middle Earth that I immediately started The Silmarillion.  It was a slog.  I think I got about 50 pages into it and gave up.  I tried it again a year or so later and it wasn't any better.
 That was many years ago.  Maybe as an adult it'll go better?
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 The Silmarillion is one of those books I think I should read because I enjoy The Lord of the Rings trilogy so much. I've tried to read it a couple of times, and quit not long after starting. I think I'll try reading it again this year, now that I've had more exposure to literary epics.