The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia vs The Silmarillion: Which Should You Read?

The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia William Alexander Craigie · 1906 ★★★★☆ 3.7 65 pages · ≈ 1 h 12 m · Challenging

The native religion of the ancient Scandinavians was in its main features only a special form of that common to all the Germanic peoples, and this again was only a particular development of primitive beliefs and…

The Silmarillion J. R. R. Tolkien & Christopher Tolkien · 1977 ★★★★☆ 4.0 374 pages · ≈ 6 h 56 m · Moderate

A number-one New York Times bestseller when it was originally published, The Silmarillion is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a work whose origins stretch back to a time long before The Hobbit.