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.
First time I read “The Hobbit” I hated it, while first time I read LotR I loved it.
Second time around, a few years later, I loved “The Hobbit” and I couldn’t finish LotR - not because I didn’t like it, but because it doesn’t suck me in anymore - although I periodically re-read parts of it I love. Go figure.
The Silmarillion is the only one that has remained consistently great for me.
All this to say: not only it’s subjective, but it’s also time-varying. Try again in a few years :)