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Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The realm of forgotten words
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I'd say that the journey takes about a day.
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I think that although it says on a night of rain, it means the night. Frodo left onthe morning of one day and arrived in Valinor the morning of the next day. If it wasn't for the paragraph describing Sam, I'd also say that it took Frodo a few days/weeks to get there. However, the way Tolkien compares what Sam and Frodo see, it seems like he's talking about the same night. It wouldn't make sense to say that Sam didn't see something on the first night that happened on the fifth, for example. Of course he wouldn't see something that hasn't yet happened. However, I think that the reason for Tolkien to write that is because he wanted to emphasize the separation between both Frodo and Sam, as well as ME and Valinor. It really depends on how you look at it.
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