Thanks for the correction.... I started reading the Silmarillion, but did not get very far... picked it up a few times and put it back down again... getting less than 1/3 through the book.
As far as "mythical", I meant more so to the other inhabitants of Middle-earth apart from the elves.
I tried listening to the audio CD version of the Silmarillion (found on suprnova.org/bittorrent) and found it much worse (to pay attention to) than the book. Glad I only burned the first CD, because I would have wasted about 12 more discs
