I love LOTR films and I just finished the first book of the series. Its a very creative story and it makes you feel warm inside reading it. It will make you feel like you're going on an adventure and being apart of the hobbit journey. However, if you aren't one for reading about songs, poems, random days that don't matter, and what a hill or sky looks like than prepare yourself for a long read. The book does have some important things that happen but most isn't stuff that needs to be talked about.