I agree with you. I read both the LOTR books and The Hobbit when I was younger, but I recently reread them both last year and I made a massive mistake in going with the LOTR trilogy first. I found The Hobbit to be so boring and basic in comparison. It made me really wish Tolkien went back and rewrote The Hobbit with the same detail he crafted his later novels with.

Give Lord Of The Rings a chance. It's significantly better than The Hobbit.

I'm comparing them like for like - I don't care that The Hobbit is supposedly meant for children.