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Old 03-25-2019, 10:15 AM   #2119
Huinesoron
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Huinesoron is battling Black Riders on Weathertop.Huinesoron is battling Black Riders on Weathertop.
Okay... 'whisk you away' sounds like a river, but I'm having trouble reconciling 'reflection' with 'fast-flowing'. Tolkien liked to put reflections on perfectly still water (Mirrormere, Aeluin), not on flowing rivers.

And that second-to-last line really has me baffled. It could just be an expansion on the theme that taking a journey widens your world, but it feels more mystical than that. The only explicitly magical rivers I can think of are the Withywindle (which won't 'whisk you away') and the Forest River of Mirkwood (which I don't think reflected anything, due to the... y'know, murk).

Anduin, on general principles?

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