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.
Yeah book is decently well known as slow and boring for a lot of it (yeah there’s merit to it but I’ll pass). Book 2-3 might be less slow.
Movies have much tighter pacing because they’re so much shorter. You should just watch them and read other books.