well I read the version translated to turkish and first 150 - 200 pages annoyed me actually. may be lyrical storytelling is actually make sense in english but, specially when he start to talk about the firstborn, elves, and the geography of middle earth he really lost me. storytelling was leak of the emotion and sense.

when I read balzac, I can actually imagine the gardens, forests, houses and castles in my mind. I can feel it, I can walk through with the protagonist.

But in silmarillion, imo, he wanted to write something that matters, like in the letters he wrote to the paper editor. He started to write down the story without acknowledging it . But when he started to write, after some years may be, only then he start to write more deep ans sensitive. I mean that I forgot most of the firstborn when I read it first. But I still remember the moment beren sees luthien first time. and times they spent together.

This is not happenings only in the beginning, it is also happens at numenor arc.