My uncle who lent young me his copy of LOTR advised me to skip the Tom Bombadil chapters entirely, it was good advice.

how do you know if you skipped?

You are right to push back. I read it later.

after you read it, why did you find it was good advice?

	▲	HlessClaudesman 31 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I was about 8 or 9 on my first reading, those chapters are just slow and don't advance the plot, probably would have bounced me out of the book. As an adult I found the author's horny depiction of Goldberry kind of off putting.