I, too, recall being stunned when I read that, Celegorm.
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That's pretty poor progress
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I agree, Saucepan Man.
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First of all, he could only cover about 2 miles in an hour cantering on horseback
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A horse can only go at two mph?! I know nothing about horses but that seems very slow. I can do that on foot.
Every year I participate in a walk-a-thon to raise funds for my youth group. The trail is a touch over twelve miles long, we start sometime around 7 AM, and my friend and I are always done before noon and are not terribly tired (though I once wore new shoes and developed a blister).
I understand that Boromir would be carrying a pack with him but it would not hinder him so much that he could only manage ten miles in a day, not if I can do over twelve in just the first part of the day.
Not to mention that Boromir would certainly be stronger and more enduring than I am, after all a large part of his life was spent doing things that were physically challenging.
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It would be like me going to a city on foot or horseback, about a third of a way across the United States, without a map.
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But if you had a map you could make it in less than 110 days, couldn't you? And if it was a place that you knew the location of then you could probably do without a map (or maybe I'm just saying that because I'm a geography major). [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
It seems to me that the best explanation for the journey taking so long was just what The Saucepan Man said earlier-
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He must have got terribly lost
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If he knew the general region of Rivendell but didn't know how to get to it, it is possible that he could have spent a month wandering around and zigzagging back and forth within a very small area West of the Misty Mountains. That is what I would guess happened.