Recent Newsweek article on Tolkien & the making of the Silmarillion. Short & fluffy, appears to be extracted from a special Tolkien issue of the mag.
http://www.newsweek.com/road-goes-ever-after-jrr-tolkiens-passing-563534
http://www.newsweek.com/road-goes-ever-after-jrr-tolkiens-passing-563534
If CJRT had based the Silmarillion on the Book of Lost Tales rather than trying to merge the Annals with the later drafts it would probably have been more widely read, I didn't fall in love with the stories until BoLT.
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