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This is really the first volume of a single novel divided into three volumes for publishing purposes, so it's probably more appropriate to review the whole thing than to review each volume separately.
However, I suppose this first volume is my favourite. Because, although it has various scenes of darkness and danger, overall it seems the most cheerful of the three; and also because Gollum doesn't appear in it, although he's mentioned now and then.
To avoid double-counting, I've listed here only the times when I've read this volume without reading the other two.