If you had to omit one part

[Mister Underhill]

And those quotations beg this obligatory addition, from the foreword to LotR:

The most critical reader of all, myself, now finds many defects, minor and major, but being fortunately under no obligation either to review the book or to write it again, he will pass over these in silence, except one that has been noted by others: the book is too short.