guys... he would not have been going that slowly, until he got far north... right near Rivendell. He would have made good time, and followed the old road through lindon would have come to bree perhaps. There he would have asked people if anyone knew where rivendell lay, and would have set off on a meander eastwards. He probably could have got up to that area in a month, a month and a half perhaps... THIS is when his journey starts to become slow, he'd be wandering aronud for 1.5-2 months looking for rivendell. Horses are fast sure... but they have about the same stamina (proportionaltely) as a Man... they cannot canter, or gallop all day, and even trotting is difficult to maintain for long periods of time. 2 miles an hour is perhaps a minumum estimate, but it's not far off. And once he had lost his horse at the ford of Tharbad, he'd have to trudge it on foot, with the gear he took from a horse. I hike a lot, and I can tell you, doing 10km a day is not easy, you're lucky to keep up a steady 3 mph, and he'd be sweaty and exhausted at the end of that. Physically going non-stop for 110 days... sheesh what a bloke! Doughty indeed! Even so as I said above, he'd probably get to the region west of rivendell in about 40-50 days, but would then take the same again LOOKING for the hidden vale. Remember, no-one knows where it is; at best it's a name on the edge of a tale. So say not: that's pretty slack, rather say: I can't believe he managed to find it at all!!
I certainly would not have the stamina, patience or will to keep going for that long, to find a place where I know not what shall happen, just to explain a dream...
Osse
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