To: Bear_in_RoseBear; Corin Stormhands
Yeah, that was Tolkien's excuse. I think he just wanted to make the trip as unpleasant as possible.
Corin, I'm ignoring that post.
6,698 posted on
01/24/2005 12:27:01 PM PST by
JenB
To: JenB; Bear_in_RoseBear; Overtaxed; HairOfTheDog; RMDupree
We are Elrond's elves...filling Elrond's shelves...
6,700 posted on
01/24/2005 12:32:02 PM PST by
Corin Stormhands
(All we have to decide is what to do with the crap that we are given...)
To: JenB
It works out though... the Company arrives at Caras Galadhon January 17, nearly a month after leaving Rivendell. In "The Ring Goes South", it's mentioned that Elladan and Elrohir were the last scouts to return; "they had made a great journey, passing down the Silverlode in a strange country". Presumably they had travelled to Lorien and back, in just under two months.
By the way, according to the Tale of Years, Gandalf fought the Balrog for 10 days.
6,702 posted on
01/24/2005 12:33:12 PM PST by
Bear_in_RoseBear
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