Slept on it and I think for me this suffered from me having watched the LoTR films first and having somewhat different expectations when first reading it. For clarity, to me a 3 is a solid 'I enjoyed this'. Like it's basically a 'meets expectations' type of rating.

The Hobbit was very cozy and such a pleasant surprise to have turned out to be something I would likely read to my future kid before bed. But that's also why I think I wound up feeling a little unsatisfied. Because of the movies I was honestly expecting a bit more epic than cozy. And at first I was happy to see it wasn't that and endeared by it, but after the story starts to pick up that endearment kind of faltered into boredom. It started to feel a little mundane at points or like it was dragging on.

Overall though I did enjoy it, just think my personal enjoyment suffered due to the movies setting a different vibe than the writing delivered. Not the books fault 🩵