The sacred mountains vs The Silmarillion: Which Should You Read?

The sacred mountains Joel Tyler Headley · 1847 194 pages · ≈ 3 h 36 m · Challenging

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.