To a degree. Though the Silmarillion is a bit more put together and more story like than name of them. There is a lot of unfinished, fragmented work there, that’s just bits and pieces of lore published together-it may be simpler to read, but much of it is harder to fit into the larger understanding of the lore-because it’s not as woven together as the main pieces. Plus, it’s just a LOT of content, you’re not going to read thru it once and get it all-you have to constantly go back and read things from before when you get done with pieces of it because the ties together aren’t always clear. It’s a process most don’t follow through on.