Quote Originally Posted by arkansasbob View Post
finished lord of the rings (second time through -- third if you count listening to the audio version) and decided as soon as i finished to order the silmarillion. i don't think i'll read it right away. right now, i'm working on the deep things of God and the bounty trilogy.
I put the Silmarillion off for years because I was scarred by The Book of Lost Tales - which looked/sounded so cool (but is so, so boring). The Lost Tales are basically early versions of the Silmarillion. Then I stumbled across this blog, read a few posts and decided to hold off on reading more until I'd read the actual work -and . . . I really mostly liked it better than I thought I would. Well worth reading.