Started reading the Hobbit. I'm not enjoying the little links to real-world stuff.

I've always wanted to read The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and I'm around half way through the Hobbit.

I'm really not enjoying parts like where they explain the group are walking along the mountains and mountain giants are throwing boulders and something something this is how the sport football as we know it, came to be.

Or where the group are surrounded by wargs and goblins and Bilbo says something like "we escaped goblins only to be eaten by wargs" which then Tolkien goes on to say this is come to be the phrase we know today as "out of the frying pan, and into the fire".

Both of these parts made me cringe a little because I just want my fantasy to remain fantasy and not be linked to me being sat on my sofa in the real world with things like mortgages and food shopping.

Maybe I'm alone on this? I am absolutely enjoying it so far, despite these things.

..Except for the singing. Dear lord the singing is endless. Everybody and everyone sings, and they all seem to know the words to these songs despite them being for very incredibly niche situations.

Is the trilogy like this too, or was all of the above simply because the Hobbit was intended for younger minds at first?