I have an idea for getting us out of our writing funk.....
The Entwash must have a "river daughter", and she could live in a quiet little college just off a ways from the path entrance to the swamp where the main party is headed. The party could really stand some healing, some tlc, and some lifted spirits. I was thinking that she is like Goldberry, but different for being associated with the swamp and the Entwash, with its beginnings in Fangorn. I had thought of two names: Daylily, and Marigold.
Is this okay with people? Maybe she can even heal Mellonin's face so there will be no scar; not to mention, healing some much beleaguered spirits.... and she has no mate, so who knows what might not happen between a single Elf and a river daughter?......