The Silmarillion

What a journey! It's taken me 30+ years to read this thing, I've started and given up numerous times. I'd built it up as a marathon and set myself to fail...until now. For some reason this time I waded in, kept my feet wet and before you knew it I couldn't stop reading. This thing is incredible, the level of detail, the beauty of the prose, the sheer depth is unbelievable. So why not 5 stars? Well it's still a monster of a book to grapple with. I doubt anyone could read this and absorb everything the first time so I'm leaving that final star for some future re-read, for now, I'll return to the rest of Tolkien's writing in a whole new light...the road goes ever on.