Walk To Rivendell" aka "The Eowyn Challenge"

[Alatáriël Lossëhelin]

Today I made a HUUUUGE sacrifice for my walk. Frodo only went on a dangerous quest to the very fires of Mount Doom. I missed 15 minutes of Neighbours. (Heehee- that's going to mean nothing to most of you!)

Lyra: I know you posted this about 3 weeks ago but I just read it (I was re-reading the posts on the old thread). When you say "Neighbors", do you mean the 70's TV show with Richard Briers & Felicity Kendal? PBS will periodically broadcast it in the USA as "Good Neighbors". I love that show!!

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I'd like to have stayed by the stream for one more day, but Strider said we should move on. He feels the Black Riders might be somewhere in the vicinity. We saw some birds away off in the distance earlier today, and he made Arwen and I lie under some bushes until they were out of sight.

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Next morning they set out again soon after sunrise. There was a frost in the air, and the sky was a pale clear blue. The hobbits felt refreshed, as if they had had a night of unbroken sleep. Already they were getting used to much walking on short commons--shorter at any rate than what in the Shire they would have thought barely enough to keep them on their legs. Pippin declared that Frodo was looking twice the hobbit that he had been.

"Very odd," said Frodo, tightening his belt, "considering that there is actually a good deal less of me. I hope the thinning process will not go on indefinitely, or I shall become a wraith."

"Do not speak of such things!" said Strider quickly, and with surprising earnestness.