why do people dislike lord of the rings?

[Neferchoirwen]

Tolkien himself may be moralistic, but his works do show morality in "real" ways---Denethor's attempt on Faramir was thwarted, for instance.

I feel quite "alone" when I'm with my friends when it comes to Tolkien (well, we're all lit majors, me and my friends; but the bizarre thing is, I'm the only one who's read LoTR! [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] )
--->which brings me to our topic: I kept talking about The Lord of The Rings to my pals so much that they end up not reading. (either that or they procrastiate on the chance to open up a book and to be "found by the adventure," as I recall the trailer saying)

So aside from "them" deciding that the books are absolutely beyond them, maybe it's because we get all excited too much that they don't just get it.