Truly, if it were an actual boat and not just some floating collection of wood, it has no place in that cave. Why?
- Orcs - When did orcs become Captains Courageous? Weren't the rafts used to cross the Anduin at the edge of the Third Age somewhat novel?
- Smeagol - He obviously didn't bring it with him, as typically one does not take a boat when mountain climbing/worming through small holes in the ground.
- Gollum - Where would he get the materials to make a boat? Again, I can go with a collection of wooden beams lashed together, but boat? Timber and pitch couldn't have been too readily available in the goblin hive. And what tools?
- Gollum again - Anyway, is Gollum now the apprentice of Cirdan?
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