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I did not care for the Lord of the Rings.
I absolutely hated them the first time I watched them in the theatre. Years and years later I watched them on my sofa, in my living rooms, and finally enjoyed them.
They were too long and drawn out of a story to be engaged by surrounded by screaming children and teenagers yapping to each other.
Watching it at home it went from something I hated to one of my favourites.
Love the movies, can't get through 2 chapters of the books. I've easily read 1,000+ books, and I'm very forgiving, i.e., not picky. But I just can't get into Tolkien.
Loved the books (read 'em mutiple times) but didn't care for the movies. Not even the look of them (the film was over exposed with an ugly color palet).
I hear ya. I found the first half of Fellowship to be excruciating to read. Especially the Tom Bombadil stuff. I gritted my teeth and struggled through it. Then when they get to the barrow downs it really picks up, and I enjoyed the second half of the book.
I found Two Towers a really fun read.
I found Return of the King to be okay. Pace was decent but Tolkien's over the top, grandious writing style in that book got kind of annoying.
Not sure if this helps you, but I thought I'd share my thoughts just in case.
The Two Towers remains to this day the only book that I was reading by my own choice that I skipped parts of. Maybe I'd read them if I was reading it today (it was the history lecture part, I wanted them to get on with the story but might appreciate the history more now), but I don't really care to read Tolkien again. I'll always appreciate what he did for the fantasy genre, but it has evolved beyond him now IMO.