Elves and Gondor

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

I actually believe there will be a large portion of people who would just go into the forest... and disappear. Lórien is a dangerous place, place of "Elven magic", and I think that with many people it could indeed turn so that they enter the woods and then spend the rest of their life with sitting in a glade, gazing at the sun and literally losing themselves in the spell of Lórien. This is the way, I believe, in which Lórien would be protected against intruders - they would not go further into the woods, they would not reach Caras Galadhon, but they will be enchanted and simply remain there. Remember Bombur and the forest river. Isn't this the dangerous Elvish magic which made Elven woods so feared in the tales of Men?

In that case, would Faramir saying they 'seldom returned' mean those who did come back simply didn't make it to Lórien, or that they somehow were immune to the effect? Come to think of it, if most who arrived uninvited to Lórien simply dreamt the rest of their lives away, why were Haldir, Rumil, and Oropher so concerned about the orcs who crossed Nimrodel in pursuit of the Fellowship? Wouldn't it be a simple matter of hiding and letting them come under the spell, if that was Lórien's primary defense?