The Hobbit - Chapter 13 - Not At Home

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Now, if you were reading this chapter for the first time, could you really stop at that point, or would you go on to the next chapter to see what happens?!

And what did Douglas Gresham do, since we're told in the movie
Shadowlands he read one chapter a night before going to sleep, and
he was seen reading The Hobbit?

This chapter is important in itself to the story development, since
the Arkenstone is introduced, around which much of the storyline
and the further development and growth of Bilbo hinge.