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Originally Posted by davem
TH may well be 'the best introduction to the Mountains' but it is not part of them.
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m-mm, would it help to consider the whole as a 'journey', and the Hobbit as the path where the road begins? In the light of Bilbo's:
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He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,” he used to say. “You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.
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If you look back from the summit,
all the way you've come will make part of the 'journey to the mountains', not only the path that lead you up from mountain's immediate foot.