And am kind of wondering why, exactly, I've been warned about the "BORING AND DULL BOOK OF DOOOOOM!" by so many people. After the Ainulindalë, I was enthralled... and as I'd been told that it was "good, if you can stomach it, but very dull", I kept expecting things to slow down and be impossible to understand... but they never did.
At any rate, I almost tore my hair in frustration when I came to the center of the tale of Beren and Luthien, and a page was torn out.
Given, there are some parts of the book that need reading-over several times to get the full meaning of, and it's not a book that can be multitasked with; if you read the Silmarillion, I've found, you either read the Silmarillion or you do something else, never both at once, or you will fail both tasks. >_>
What do you think? Is it really -that- boring?