[Lostgaeriel]

Ropes: A rope is about the most massively useful thing any Middle-earth Hitch-Hiker can carry. For one thing it has great practical value – you can tie it around your Elven cloak for warmth and camouflage on the Plains of Gorgoroth, rappel down it from the top of the cliffs of the Emyn Muil, make a bridge out of it to cross the River Celebrant, make a halter for a sturdy little pony, make a ladder to climb a mallorn tree in the forest of Lothlórien, make an ankle leash for a miserable slinker, tie up an Elven boat on the shores of the great River Anduin, be hung on the end of it as a warning to numbskulls, and even make a swing from the mallorn tree in the Party Field for little Elanor if it still seems strong enough.