[Mithalwen]

No problems. I have enjoyed reading your posts so far. I have had a chance to look this up and there is a fortnight between the night the hobbits spent at Woodhall and Glorfindel leaving Rivendell which given that Gandalf, albeit on Shadowfax rode between Bree and Weathertop in 3 days seems quite enough to transmit the message by normal methods as long as horses were involved. Aragorn says it would take 12 days for him to get to Rivendell from Weathertop and maybe even elves would be pushed to manage the Woodyend to Rivendell on foot in 14. We know that the Rangers were aware of a developing situation and they clearly had some sort of structure with "caches" at Weathertop and probably Fornost Erain. The rangers did have horses even if they went on foot when stealth was required.