[HlessClaudesman]

My uncle who lent young me his copy of LOTR advised me to skip the Tom Bombadil chapters entirely, it was good advice.

[gryzzly]

how do you know if you skipped?

[HlessClaudesman]

You are right to push back. I read it later.

[em-bee]

after you read it, why did you find it was good advice?

[HlessClaudesman]

I was about 8 or 9 on my first reading, those chapters are just slow and don't advance the plot, probably would have bounced me out of the book.

As an adult I found the author's horny depiction of Goldberry kind of off putting.

[analog8374]

It was cool. He Dunsany'd out there.