Parts we read without reading the whole book

[Aganzir]

Originally Posted by Tuor in Gondolin

and The Quest of
Erebor. (It's a pity PJ and
Friends apparently didn't read it or they might have not made
some of their sillier "improvements in their 3 LoTR movies).

They couldn't have used anything in it though because they don't have the rights to UT... and my guess is that the Estate might have sued them if there had been anything that looked even remotely Quest of Erebor-ish. (Sometimes it feels like they didn't read The Hobbit either. )

I rarely reread just parts, especially if I'm reading one of the more coherent stories, but sometimes you get a craving. Poems are easier to single out (and I have lots of favourites), but there are also some chapters - even though usually I prefer thinking back to a chapter, recalling its atmosphere and tone and then saving it for a later read-through. The ones I get back to regularly:

• Old Forest, Tom Bombadil, Barrow-downs
• the Bridge of Khazad-dûm
• the Window on the West
• the Gondor stuff in Book Five in ROTK (and the Ride of the Rohirrim too - I agree with Tuor it's amazing)

It covers my main interests: dwarves and the dúnedain of the south. Similarly in the Sil, UT and HOME, I mostly reread passages about dwarves and Númenor.