Getting it out of the way, the big thing that might put you off Lord of the Rings is that it's slow reading. It's long, and filled with references to names and histories which don't directly affect the main plot. But even if that doesn't sound like your thing, I'd still recommend giving the book a try, because what's important isn't the names or the histories, or the detailed world building, or the other aspects that have been copied ad nauseam by fantasy writers for the last 60-something years. What matters is the ~vibes~.

The books feel so slow because Tolkien really gives the story time to play out. He includes whole songs in the text, he spends ages describing the landscape and the weather, and characters speak for paragraphs. In contrast, the characters, whether they appear in one scene or are a major focus of the book, get about two sentences of introduction and almost no description of their appearance. Almost everything else is told through their actions and interactions with other characters.

For me, this deliberate slowness and the focus on environment and tone creates an exceptionally memorable vibe. It's pastoral at times, and it can be an escape into another world in a way that only the best books are. I don't have a very good memory for all the details in the books—the names, the histories, and the songs—I don't think Tolkien expect readers to memorise that sort of thing (after all, one of the songs in the book is written in an invented language). What I do remember is the moments and the moods. I remember what the weather was like in a particular forest in autumn, or the feeling of darkness in the mines below a mountain, or the atmosphere of celebration at a hobbit's birthday party.

There are still all the epic fantasy tropes which have been endlessly copied by others (and which Tolkien himself copied from the sagas he was imitating), but I think the softness and slowness of these books are often forgotten, or remembered only as a negative. Anyway, if you aren't sure whether you'd enjoy Lord of the Rings, but this sounds like something you could read, pick up The Fellowship of the Ring and give it a go.
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