| Re: The nature of Tharbad as a ford [message #168174] |
So, 13 November 2005 18:23 |
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"elendur" <elendur [at] arcor.de> skrev i en meddelelse
news:1131896715.173313.157430 [at] o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> In FOTR Boromir loses his horse, by drowning or otherwise at Tharbad
> during his 110 day journey July-October to Rivendell.
Not by drowning. He borrowed the horse from the Rohirrim. Éomer
comments that the horse returned riderless.
Karasu.
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| Re: The nature of Tharbad as a ford [message #168184 ] |
Mo, 14 November 2005 01:30 |
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In article <iZKdf.601$yd6.323 [at] news.get2net.dk>, Raven wrote:
> "elendur" <elendur [at] arcor.de> skrev i en meddelelse
> news:1131896715.173313.157430 [at] o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
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>> In FOTR Boromir loses his horse, by drowning or otherwise at Tharbad
>> during his 110 day journey July-October to Rivendell.
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> Not by drowning. He borrowed the horse from the Rohirrim. Éomer
> comments that the horse returned riderless.
Maybe he got attacked by bandits while trying to ford. His horse fled
south and he decided to keep going rather than trying to retrieve his
horse.
I would be interested in knowing what route he took after that point?
Did he follow the river upstream or did he follow the road (in which
case he passed through Bree a bit after Gandalf).
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| Re: The nature of Tharbad as a ford [message #168194 ] |
Mo, 14 November 2005 09:22 |
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> I would be interested in knowing what route he took after that point?
> Did he follow the river upstream or did he follow the road (in which
> case he passed through Bree a bit after Gandalf).
On the one hand we know that it took him 110 days, on the other we do
not know the date he was at Tharbad to then work out the average
distance per day he had to cover to get to Rivendell when he did. But
through (our ) history, armies assume max. 30 miles walking per day.
The ME Map has a scale in miles. JRRT notes in UT "Disaster of the
Gladden Fields" how much shorter it was for Isildur to go back to
Rivendell up the Vale of Anduin.
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