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I laughed incredibly much - for several minutes, and repeatedly - when I have first read in the Hobbit the poem Bilbo uses against the spiders (the second one - Lazy Lob and Crazy Cob, that time however translated into my native language). That was just incredibly hilarious (okay, I was like 8 or 9 at that time, but I remember exactly how I could not stop laughing). It was also the first passage I went to check once I got the books for my own for Christmas later that year - before I've been reading it from a book borrowed in the library, an older edition, and I wanted to check if the poem does still have the same translation. It did. I spent several minutes walking around the appartement and reciting the poem aloud.
There were surely more moments, but this is the most memorable one coming to my mind.
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"Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories
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