[akhtene]

That's exactly what I was trying to do. I mean, when I just started reading, I was absolutely enchanted by the style, so different from anything I had read before. But then, probably with the coming of elves, my problems started. I tried to write out names and make sort of charts, but it distracted me greatly from the book itself. So finally I gave up and started just reading without trying to establish any relations between characters and places. And I started enjoying it!!! By the end I didn't become any wiser, I just felt it was a great book. Reading it for the second time was much easier and sort of more informative. But since then, to tell the truth I never attempted to read it as a whole, but just as a reference book. Or when I'm in the right wood, I leaf through my favourite episodes.