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Old 12-18-2022, 11:51 AM   #6
William Cloud Hicklin
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Originally Posted by Galadriel55 View Post
If you are traveling by horse, you can only travel as fast as the horse goes. If you are going faster, you need an explanation for why. Unless you are traveling by warp drive or wormhole or teleportation device, you shouldn't be able to traverse distances faster than your horse can run.
And in fact, Tolkien was willing to blow up multiple timelines and rewrite several chapters leading up to the Pelennor, just because he realized that (offstage!) Aragorn and the Grey Company were moving "faster than a horse can run." He was really, really serious about this stuff.
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