Battles in the North

[Andsigil]

Originally Posted by Rumil

Thranduil, hmm tricky - could be he indeed took 20 days to get to Mid-Mirkwood, presumably pursuing orcs and fell beasts and despatching spiders etc. We know it was VERY tangled, and Bilbo & co. took ages and ages to cross the forest even with the aid of the elf path.

Rumil,

Perhaps my D&D and film memories are salient in my head, but I was always under the impression that terrain, in and of itself, presented no problem to the elves.

That would give the elves a great advantage over the orcs, and give them some parity with the spiders of Mirkwood. As for Fell Beasts, I would imagine those creatures staying out of arrow range.