Re-imagining the Ringwraiths

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin

Found it! Finally. Treason of Isengard, 71: the "New Plot" of August 1940. Tolkien first wrote that Riders D and E "attack the inn but fail," but struck it out and replaced it with "get Bill Ferney and the Southerner to burgle the Inn."

When I consider it, sending others to do the Pony break in was a pretty good idea.

If Ferny and the Southerner had been able to get the Ring (or the hobbit that carried it), well and good. If not, the Wraiths had still, as Aragorn noted, all the distance between Bree and Rivendell to make an overt attack on the Ring-bearer and his party.