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A review of a new edition of The Silmarillion retells Tolkien lore and looks at this book's place in the Middle-earth canon and cosmos:

"Perhaps that is why Tolkien's myths feel so familiar in their foreignness: They tap into a collective, unconscious sense of loss -- loss of the once oral tradition of storytelling and mythmaking..."

Sense of loss, yes... though not oral tradition necessarily. Other things too.

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2005/02/18/silmarillion/

On the Silmarillion (and could be said of other books as well?):

"It's a book that everyone wanted but seemingly no one wanted to read all the way through."

On the Bible - this was interesting:
"...something else [John] Gardner [professor of medieval literature and not a Tolkien fan] said...: "Reading the Bible straight through is at least 70 percent discipline, like learning Latin. But the good parts are, of course, simply amazing. God is an extremely uneven writer, but when he's good, nobody can touch him."