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My own SDR left me with these choices. It was really hard to discard the last few, and I almost feel bad for all those passages.
The first one is the part which I find myself reading in excerpts most often lately: the Battle of the Pelennor Fields (including the ends of the Ride of the Rohirrim and the Siege of Gondor). To me, it feels more like the climax of the books than the destroying of the Ring, maybe also because it re-unites three threads of the plot. It's difficult to say why I'm so drawn to it, maybe all this defiance of death for the good of Good first, and then the madness of battle, and the madness inside of the fighting, too. Not to forget it also features the encounters of Gandalf and Éowyn with the Witch-King, which both send chills down my spine.
What fascinates me very much as well are some of the dialogues. First, there's the one between Frodo and Boromir. It's amazing, and also somewhat frightening, to see Boromir go from rational to insane in this short time. The second are the dialogues between 'the terrible old men' Denethor and Gandalf (and Pippin/Faramir). Again I can't explain why, but they make me hold my breath, probably just like they made Pippin.
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