I never finished it. I didn’t really care about the characters and their sex or race. I didn’t like the story. It just underwhelmed. Now I didn’t read this book. Tried but I couldn’t. I have read the Hobbit and LotR at least a dozen times and seen the movies several times. They had me from the beginning. This show was boring, the story was hard to follow etc.
The show is way better than the book. Silmarillion was unreadable. You have to be hopped up on Adderal to have a fighting chance, and even then you’d likely fail to get through it. Hobbit and LOTR were amazing.