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Sillmarillion was the collection of notes that JRR made to hold the concept together as he wrote The Hobbit and the Trilogy.
After his death his boys tried to get it together into a book - but of course it is a history book and not a story.
I suppose one could call it background. I found it boring and read it in patches over a period of several months. It did show how thorough JRR was though. The detail is just amazing.
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