I am currently halfway through The fellowship of the Ring, and am finding it boring and really slow (doesn’t help that I’ve been reading it for 4 months), I started reading it cause I read that it was similar to dune and I loved that book, but so far I have not found the similarities and can’t seem to get into it.
Also The lord of the rings movies are considered one of the best movies of all time so I always feel like that experience would be comparable to reading the book.
i definitely thought they were boring when i was a kid but now i love them! i think the movies set people up to think the books have a lot more action than they do, but the events in lotr are only a part of tolkien’s whole vision of “history” and world-building for middle earth and reading through the notes and songs can really take forever.