Okay, you've done better than me. I could never make it through The Silmarillion. It is nigh unreadable. I loved LOTR though.

With The Silmarillion there is at least the excuse that it wasn't really written (in its current form) by JRRT. It was cobbled together by Christopher from various drafts and such, none of which could be said to be in any way "final". Also, it covers a ridiculously long period of Middle Earth history. The Quenta Silmarillion is not a story. It has summaries of stories in it.