Tapped out after page 162. Excessively prolonged hiking is unbearably boring to me, just like in real life—let alone reading about it. Similarly are the vast amounts of irrelevant details and repetitiveness: eat, sleep, walk, repeat. Do yourself a favor and watch the movies instead.

“It is better either to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.” —Pythagoras (570 – 496 BC)

Tolkien did not read Pythagoras.