Novels with a meandering world-building focus (e.g. LotR) are like a polar opposite and the most boring genre fiction in existence. > as if it is leading to so

Novels with a meandering world-building focus (e.g. LotR) are like a polar opposite and the most boring genre fiction in existence. > as if it is leading to some shattering conclusion, and then it just doesn't This sounds like another way of saying the story was fast-paced and engaging, and you didn't find the conclusion to feel like a "climax" with explosions. That's ok (notwithstanding that there was a big fight and all), but I think in "idea-driven" books like this it's just as well to leave things ending either strangely / unexpectedly, slightly unresolved or whatever. It's hard to put a bow on a story that can't really have a happy ending. Weird stories should have weird endings.