Boromir and his search for Rivendell

[Boromir88]

Boro you work in transportation planning too?~Kuru

I've been out of the fireworks business for a little while and now working for the Road Engineers.

Gondor's ignorance of Rivendell's location doesn't add up.~MoS

Why not? If characters like Aragorn who had grown up in Rivendell and the area, struggled finding it, imagine someone from a far off country, trying to find a hidden location.

Besides Elrond's power, secrecy was Rivendell's only weapon. It wasn't a fortress, it was in more of a mansion where members of Elrond's house and some other guests lived - it was a hidden refuge in a secret valley. I don't know what you expect anyone in Gondor to know about it's location, and certainly from people (Denethor, Faramir, Boromir...etc) who have never been there, and they have been out of contact with for many hundreds of years.

I am fascinated by the ideas about a possible "Elrond's girdle," and Boromir finding the place due to intervention from Eru, I never thought about that...just knew it was a really hard place for the man to find.