It’s perfectly fine if it doesn’t appeal to you. But LOTR is probably the best written fantasy ever put down on paper. How it all came from the imagination of an obscure Oxford don, the leading light in an even more obscure field of study (Philology), and became one of the most read and beloved works of fiction for now going past half a century probably counts as a miracle itself. Besides just the scale (I mean how many authors can on their own create several complex mythologies and separate languages within about one thousand pages?) the scenes of war, brutality, and suffering seem true because they came from a man who served several years in the Western Front trenches. So he saw men shot, gassed, and blown to bits but came out to write first an epic children’s fantasy (The Hobbit) and then one which has moved several generations of adults.
That’s fine. It is obviously well-loved by many people. I prefer a different genre for moral uplift and education. I didn’t think that was too radical a position since, while we are talking about religion, we are also discussing literature.