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.
Yes, and I say that as someone that loves the books and has read them probably half a dozen times since I was a kid.
If you want the LOTR books to move at a better pace, skip all of the poems and songs. Also the whole fucking section with Tom Bombadil.
The Silmarillion is infinitely more tedious and isn’t really a book imo.