To be honest barely even remember those parts. I've read the book twice. There was lots of things in all of the film and tv versions that were not even in the book.

Anyway, the maps and scripts were the things that enchanted me in LotR, my mother read The Hobbit to me and my sister in our childhood. I didn't read the trilogy until 2010. Now that is detailed, I agree. But it was well paced, just dense.