If you remember the hobbits journey through the Old Forest, I believe it was similar to that. No matter how hard they tried, the winding paths led them to the Withywindle and Old Man Willow. Trying to enter Doriath, which was surrounded by forests, the paths would seem to shift and turn you round until they led you back out again. It always seemed like that to me.
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Yet all the while I sit and think of times there were before,
I listen for returning feet and voices at the door.
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