One thing I used to do is choose a character (usually one of the hobbits) and just read his chapters skipping the rest. It forces you to learn what else was going on while, for example, Pippin was in Isengard. You'd be surprised. When you do this, it reads like a whole new book.
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Yet all the while I sit and think of times there were before,
I listen for returning feet and voices at the door.
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