Fellowship of the Ring ~ Favorite Chapters

I'm planning on doing a re-read of the entire trilogy after I finish my current re-read of Unfinished Tales, so I'm sure I'll be able to give a more in depth opinion once I've started! But I remember that when I first read FotR at 15, the chapter with the Barrow Wights and Old Man Willow held me absolutely spellbound - there was a sense of the world of Middle-Earth being ancient and mysterious, and I was dying to know about this Dark Power of the North that was mentioned as the cause of this weird patch of old evil right next to the Shire. Hence I am now very much obsessed with all things First Age!

A little off topic, my apologies

Hanasian, I thought the Council of Elrond is a very exciting chapter too. Watching (reading, in this case) the representatives of all these other cultures and races come together and decide to defeat evil together is pretty epic! Again, when I do my big re-read, I'll probably wax lyrical on every little detail I liked about it.