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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/redeye.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: MIstari

Now I regret asking this question without having first looked it up. I was basing it on the conversation following the failure of the fellowship to pass the Redhorn Gate/Dimrill Dale route. Gandalf's reply to Boromir suggests that the only remaining options were Moria or the Gap of Isengard (and ruling out the latter). And of course there was the high pass east of Rivendell. So, I had originally intended that the answer was two (plus at least two subterranean routes).
But then I got your answer and tried to assess it by reference to the canon, and this is what I found.
The Hobbit says:
<blockquote>Quote:<hr> There were many paths that led up into those mountains and many passes over them.<hr></blockquote>
And Silma describes the movement of the Great Alliance:
<blockquote>Quote:<hr> From Imladris, they crossed the Misty Mountains by many passes...<hr></blockquote>
Both of which I had completely forgotten.
So I don't know the answer. Yours seems plausible enough. Ask us!

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