Quite frankly, the entire saga about all these human heroes is boring as hell. It's more about genealogies and weird languages than actual story. I read the Silmarillion to get a feeling for the background of Hobbit and Lord of the Rings; and that should have been the end, really. The rest is milking the goods for all they're worth and feeding the ... ringsies, I suppose I'd call them (after 'trekkies'). Tolkien sr. simply isn't a great writer: he's much better off at creating the imaginary world the... episodes take place in.
