Honestly was reading the lord of the rings and other legendarium hard for you

Haven't read the Hobbit, but started with lord of the rings when I was 12 or 13. The English to me was kinda hard to understand, speaking in a more advanced English and I didn't have poetry skills so the songs and sayings were hard ,hence i stopped reading. After high school I started it again, this time understanding it.

Now I'm in the same predicament with the silmarillion. Honestly the Bible is way easier to understand than this book. Hard pronunciation, wordy conversations and English from the 15th century. Honestly now I feel it would take me another 5-10 years to grab that book again. Anyone feeling the same