No, I'm sorry, but there is every reason to find LOTR tedious. Just a stream of made up place names and made up peoples names none of which you can empathise with. I had the same trouble with One Hundred Years Of Solitude. Just an endless cascade of similar sounding names. I'm not put off by...
Lord of the Rings.
First Harry Potter.
Some East End gang family novel by a woman whose name I can't remember. It was almost so bad that it was funny. But not quite.