Here's the other problem... He repeats himself.

So the book starts with the creation myth, the Gods creating the world with a song.

Then he tells it again, with a little more detail.

Then he tells it again with more detail about the various gods, who does what, divisions of labor and so on.

That happens over and over through the book... Ok, here are the elves. Next chapter. Elves get divided into multiple groups. Next chapter. Elvish family trees.

You have to get through all that before anything significant happens.