Well, clearly there must be balance and boundaries in all things.
But I am curious Bill as to how you see Tom and Goldberry as 'Gated' and not Lothlorien?
It seems to me that Lothlorien goes way beyond the average [Non-Noldorin] ELvish isolationism, and that like Nargothrond or Gondolin or Doriath, woe to those who tryto enter unbidden.
Though I have always wondered about those docks and boats on the Anduin!
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The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the night exchanging lore & wisdom such as they still possessed that they should not fall back into the mean estate of those who never knew or indeed rebelled against the Light.
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