I hate to think what reading the Silmarillion would've been like without a searchable Tolkien wiki

I'm trying to read the Silmarillion again! This might be the third time.

This time I made it through the creation story bit, and I still thought the musical element came out weird and naff and didn't really work.

I'm enjoying the elf parts, which, while boring at times, are mainly like reading an encyclopedia. At times it reminds me of Edith Hamilton's Mythology, one of my favorite books in elementary school. But at others it's hilariously even less narrative (or more so, but the narrative is too boring and has too many names to keep track of and I lose the thread, so in that sense, a bit like an Icelandic saga... albeit their polar opposite in level of detail).