It seems "Damian John Paul Brown" wrote in rec.arts.books.tolkien:
>I am up to chapter 6 in the Hobbit, and it has just got a bit more
>interesting with the introduction of Gollum and the finding of the
>magic ring...
>
>I spoke to my brother-in-law, and he said that he didn't read the
>Hobbit before the LOTR, and he wishes that he had have done...
>
>also, the Silmarillion says on the back that it is a precursor to
>LOTR, but I have been advised to read it after LOTR...
I don't see an actual question in there, but for what it's worth I
agree with the advice you were given.
Read /Hobbit/ first, then LotR. Then read Silm, but perhaps you
might want to precede it with the parts of /Unfinished Tales/ that
have to do with the Third and Fourth Ages.
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