Ashamed and A Live

[Encaitare]

But when I was beginning to read BoLT 1, I lacked the enthusiasm, more so when I was reading the first part (I even forgot its title!) since I could hardly connect it to my previous readings.

Yes, it definitely depends on how you can relate it to what you already know. I'm maybe a third through BoLT 2, and it's good but difficult to get through -- this on-and-off progress has taken me several months. Yet yesterday I was going on a long bus ride and decided to take the Return of the Shadow with me to read, and I got about a quarter of the way through it in one sitting. It was so much easier to follow because I'm that much more familiar with the story of LotR than that which BoLT encompasses.