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 don’t think it’s boring, but Fellowship is much slower than the rest of the novel. Once you get to the Council of Elrond in book 2 the pace starts to gradually pick up and continues to do so all throughout Two Towers and into Return of the King.