I have completed Tolkien's 'The Lord of the Rings' and I enjoyed reading it.
He writes with great skill and poetry. Though when I compare the book to the film I see that many details were left out from the film.
After completing The Lord of the Rings I began reading the other work by Tolkien ' The Silmarillion. After reading some 30 pages or so I threw the book in the garbage for I thought it was extremely paganistic in nature, and I didn’t like that at all.
The Silmarillion deals with the 'first age ' in Tolkien's world , while 'The Lord of the rings' is about the third age. The Lord of the rings is more of a story, and doesn’t deal with 'Gods' or pagan religious subjects. I was disappointed with The Silmarillion, for I thought that it would be a nice story to read, but its paganistic nature really ruined it. I am not for reading this pagan things.
Saul