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Which means that the normal editorial pruning and such J.R.R. would have applied to it... didn't happen. I suspect given the difference in loquacity seen between LOTR and Silmarillion that Tolkien KNEW his writing style was verbose and put some effort into editing it down before publication.

As for the movies... Yeah, they don't stack up to the books, but as standalone pieces of entertainment they're good.