I couldn't stand the books. I made it to a little past the halfway mark of the Two Towers when I last tried to read them and it was so unbelievably boring. The pacing is awful. I really want to like the Lord of the Rings because there's obviously a very well fleshed out and interesting world in there. It's just a shame it's bogged down by a story that's, overall, as dull as that.

I have to give the nod to the movies because, despite whatever changes from the books they may have and the end of Return of the King being entirely too long, I at least enjoy them enough to get through them. That's pretty significant in my books.