Sadly, I haven't read the Silmarillion yet....I tried though! I'm on the fourth page right now 😮 But I just haven't read it because I have to read specific books for school right now (I'm reading five books at once...I'm not sure I can handle six haha), but when I get done with those books, I'll finish the Silmarillion. So tell me, everyone, how do you rate it? Out of 10. I saw someone rated it on the last page, but I want to know what everyone else thinks 😄
Out of 10? Maybe 9.75 😄
I really can't rate it as the perfect, perfect book to give it a 10 IMO, 'coz I admit I'm being confused and lost sometimes. But that really depends on the person who's reading it. You just have to remind yourself though that one of the things about the Silmarillion is that it is the "backstory" so to speak of "Lord of the Rings." Tolkien meant it more as a historical text than a detailed story and that is why you don't get the indepth character development, dialogue, and landscape detail. The truly compelling characters who really had some developments are Melkor, Turin and Feanor, IMO.
Overall, I rated it 9.75, and I wouldn't rate it lower than that. It's a brilliant piece of literature and you wouldn't regret reading it. You will really be pulled in Utumno, Angband, Aman, Eressea, etc. 😄
Ah thank you shadowy 😄 Eh that makes me wish I had it over here...I'm with my dad and my copy from the library (I don't have any money to buy it hehe) is at my house....I just can't get into it like I did with LOTR...It's confusing. It's kinda hard to read it, but once I get to the 10th page or something, I'll probably get done with it within a week, considering I have other books to read....*sigh* Good thing I'm a fast reader or else it would take me forever to read all these books!! .....Hmmm people think I'm wierd cause I like to read 😕 I say they're wierd cause they DON'T like to read! Ha! 😛