I am unsure if there is already a thread like this created, and if so please forgive me for creating another, but something has been bugging the ever living out of me since I watched those movies.
Frodo, when both he and Sam are resting, tells Sam that the wood elves are near. The two of them in all their hobbitsh excitement go and watch them pass through. Frodo tells Sam they are passing over the Sea into the Undying Lands and Sam says it make him sad and all that jazz.
The only "wood elves" that I ever remember Frodo and Sam meeting in the Shire was Gildor Inglorion and his company of elves.
My question is: Are the elves Frodo and Sam see Gildor and his company?
I mean, given the number of them, they DO make a company, but Gildor told Frodo in the books...
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"We are Exiles, and most of our kindred have long departed and we too are only tarrying here a while, ere we return over the Great Sea."
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It's possible I guess that it was Gildor and his company departing, (PJ and what he likes to call "adding his own touch") but he and Frodo met again in the same spot, when Gildor was traveling to the Undying Lands with Gandalf, Elrond and Galadriel.
So...if the "wood elves" wasn't Gildor and his company, then who were they? I suppose they could be elves from Lothlorien or Mirkwood (Since they ARE
Silvan elves) traveling to the Grey Havens. (kind of already answered my own question, didn't I?
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It was just something that was bugging me, really. What do you guys think?