I read The Hobbit about a year or more ago said:
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I started reading the fellowship of the ring at the start of this year, I'm still upto page 50 or so. The movies are great but the books are so horribibly slow and boring. I might try this game out when i have some time, seems like it actual might be decent.
The movies would never have been made had the books not been as fantastic as they are. The Hobbit isn't as good as LOTR but is still a good childrens book and in some ways pretty epic in scope.
LOTR is arguably the best fantasy novel ever written, yes it can be hard to initially read the books but it's partly nowadays because english language has been so dumbed down that people struggle to hold onto anything that isn't written the way we speak in public in the present.
The first book, FOTR can be slow but that's some of the best character development you'll ever find in a book, it's not supposed to be all about action 24/7, and if it were so boring it wouldn't be one of the longest selling and amongst the highest selling books of all time.