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Originally Posted by The Mouth of Sauron
Aragorn said that about the Emyn Muil, not the Wold
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Yes, but I alluded to that in my original comment. My point was that if there were settlements of the Rohirrim as near as the Wold, the possibility of them being responsible for the dead Orcs would not have been so quickly discounted by Aragorn.
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As nightshade was closing about them, Aragorn halted. Only twice in the day's march had they rested for a brief while, and twelve leagues now lay between them and the eastern wall where they had stood at dawn.
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TT The riders of Rohan
A league is generally considered to be about 3 miles, so by then they were approximately 36 miles from the brink of the Emyn Muil. That was daybreak of the day after they left Parth Galen.
On the third day of the pursuit, there is this quote:
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Often Aragorn wondered that they saw no sign of beast or man. The dwellings of the Rohirrim were for the most part many leagues away to the South, under the wooded eaves of the White Mountains, now hidden in mist and cloud, yet the Horse-lords had formerly kept many herds and studs in the Eastemnet, this easterly region of their realm.
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TT The Riders of Rohan
That's probably the quote you had in mind,
BGreg. I believe you are correct.
Even there, far south of the Wold, the Rohirrim had no permanent settlements. Though the river Limlight was the northen boundary of Rohan, they don't appear to have ever had permanent residences in the Wold.
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For the most part their settled dwellings were about the feet of the White Mountains and and in the glens and valleys of the south.
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UT The Battles of the Fords of Isen
Again, no reference to any of the Rohirrim residing in the Wold.