[Child of the 7th Age]

Helen,

You're going to kill me! But shouldn't Greenwood be Mirkwood in your epilogue? That change happened about 1050.

Also, when Gamba was young, he would have met some of the Wood Elves and actually lived in Greenwood. That's where we're heading once we leave the boat. They are actually going to meet and help us for a bit. That's what Gandalf promised. Plus I need the Greenwood base for Cami's ties to
Radagast and the subsequent shapechanger story. Radagast lives there (for real in Tolkien!)

Presumably, though, as spiders and Orcs began to appear, the hobbits moved out of Greenwood/Mirkwood and lost many of those ties with the Wood Elves. Cami was the only hobbit to have connections with Rivendell, and those came through Gandalf, I presume. I don't know if you'd need a phrase simply saying it was many years since Gamba had been in Greenwood when you speak of Thranduil.

sharon