Awesome August : Day 17

Boyfriend gave me The Silmarillion for my birthday.  My love of The Lord of the Rings is well documented, but aside from The Hobbit, I haven't read anything else from Tolkien's universe.  Honestly, upon the first look, I was a bit intimidated.  It has small type, lots of long paragraphs, very biblical looking...

According to this NPR article listing the Top 100 Science-Fiction and Fantasy books, The Silmarillion contains "creation myths of Tolkien's Middle-earth, for those who found The Lord of the Rings too breezy and slight." While I might not have used the phrase breezy and slight, I was ready for more...

And then I read the prologue and the first story...

What the fuck is going on?  I have no idea.