This is not an easy read in the normal sense of that description, but it's a far more accessible telling of this tragic tale (the "longest of all the lays of Beleriand") than the originally published accounts in The Unfinished Tales and The Silmarillion. If you've read and enjoyed those or sagas of a similar style, you may enjoy this one. It's also pretty short in terms of Tolkien and epics. It is a tragedy, though, so be aware of that going in.

Between Morgoth, his possessed dragon Glaurung, inescapable curses, marauding orcs, betraying dwarves and men, and impetuous and misplaced pride and misunderstanding, there's no shortage of darkness in the tale. There is also friendship, however — and heroism and epic adventure and resolution. And some surprisingly good and relevant quotes:

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"Grief is a hone to a hard mind."

"Neither are you [Morgoth] the most mighty; for you have spent your strength upon yourself and wasted it in your own emptiness."

"Whenever I say that I will do this or that, it looks very different when the time comes."

"One night as they lay lurking in the fireless dark, Turin looked on his life, and it seemed to him that it might well be bettered."

"Her heart did not fail her, and she took thought."

I'm not sure why I thought it would be a good idea to read a dark and tragic saga in the dead of winter, but I mostly enjoyed being in the Tolkien universe again for awhile.