Have you read any Tolkein?
Only a little bit. I'm more familiar with his works in other media rather than his original books.
The movies they made of Lord of the Rings were very good.
The original movies were indeed pretty good. The hobbit prequels weren't quite on the same level.
No they weren't.  I was disappointed because I love The Hobbit story so much.  I have read that books so many time.
I hear it's quite good. Much smaller than the Lord of the Rings books though and yet they tried to stretch it into 3 movies.
Yes, it's a much shorter read than Lord of the Rings.  They tried to incorporate other storylines from other Middle Earth tales, but it didn't workout.
Tolkien's work and the Silmarillion really shows how much effort and love he put into his word building. Shame it didn't translate so well to film in some cases.
I agree.  He really created a whole world for it to exist.
He even constructed actual languages for his creations to use. Quite the feat and bit of effort to put into a work of fiction.