No, he flew.
~ Naked I was sent back -- for a brief time, until my task is done. And naked I lay upon the mountain-top. ... I was alone, forgotten, without escape upon the hard horn of the world. There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over, and each day was as long as a life-age of the earth. ... And so at the last Gwaihir the Windlord found me again, and he took me up and bore me away. ... "Do not let me fall!" I gasped, for I felt life in me again. "Bear me to Lothlorien!"
~ "That indeed is the command of the Lady Galadriel who sent me to look for you," he answered.
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