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Originally Posted by mark12_30
How creepy, to wander the borders of Lorien and meet enchanted mortals gazing into the treetops, hair and beard grown long and wild... Brrr.
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At least some, however, apparently escaped that fate, according to men of different countries. Boromir:
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'And now we must enter the Golden Wood, you say. But of that perilous land we have heard in Gondor, and it is said that few come out who once go in; and of that few none have escaped unscathed.'
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FOTR Lothlórien
And Éomer:
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'Then there is a Lady in the Golden Wood, as old tales tell!' he said. 'Few escape her nets, they say.'
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TTT The Riders of Rohan
From that it certainly appears that some men did enter the Wood from time to time, else the stories those two had heard and the wording they used to describe them would not be so similar.
My question now is if an enchanted dream-state awaited the uninvited and the overly curious man, why were some apparently able to return to their fellows and tell them of the experience?
Again, I can't see sovereign rulers of either Gondor or Rohan sending anyone to Lórien on any sort of official business. So why would escapees be allowed?