I liked that chapter because, aside from getting a view of all this cool stuff that's going on, there is this tension of- what are they going to do now? Up to this point it has mostly been hobbits mucking around and getting lost and buried and eaten by trees, and the dreary excursion to Rivendell punctured (har har) once or twice by the black riders. The chapters following were kind of a letdown to be honest, not just because its more walking through wasteland, but because they've more or less decided what to do, and it is mostly up to others to steer their path and the plot.