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 think Fellowship is a pretty slow and rough start. I think that once you get through about 2/3rds of it, then things start picking up. However, that means you have to put up with that first part if you want to get on to the rest.