I mean, it's not "objectively" tedious, it's tedious to you so that's subjective.

I'm reading the Silmarillion rn and I think it's great it too! It's so epic and really fleshes out everything.

I stopped reading Two Towers half way through and never finished the trilogy, but decided to give Silmarillion a go anyway and I love it way more - it's really captured my imagination.

I feel like the writing also isn't as difficult as people say. It isn't necessarily easy but I was expecting waaay worse given the reviews on it's style.

Makes me want to try to read the trilogy again when I finish.