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Pitchwife · 12-29-2008, 04:27 PM

Both groups lost their horses/ponies at some point of the story? (FSMP at Bree, ALG on the outskirts of Fangorn Forest after their encounter with Saruman/Gandalf/Saruman's spectre/Gandalf's spectre/whoever it may have been...)

Beregond · 12-30-2008, 12:24 AM

Pitchwife's connection is excellent, but I'll have a go.

Perhaps I would be right in saying that the third-person narrative only follows the four hobbits and the three hunters? It does not follow Gandalf or Boromir when they are alone. I do not remember if Gimli, Legolas, and Aragorn are ever followed separately; maybe this is why you grouped them together.

(but the narrative also follows Fatty Bolger, and maybe more)

Thinlómien · 01-06-2009, 12:29 PM

Pitchwife is on the right track, but I'd like him to give a more precise answer.

The Might · 01-06-2009, 02:48 PM

Maybe that someone else deliberately got rid of the rides?

So this spectre/Saruman/whatever scaring the horses off into the plains of Rohan and someone else letting the ponies ride away in search of Lumpkin.

Beregond · 01-06-2009, 02:52 PM

I have a feeling it's more like:

Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin had their ponies scared off, but they were found by another horse: Fatty Lumpkin.

Aragorn, Legolas (and Gimli) had their horses, Arod and Hasufel, scared off, only to be found by another horse: Shadowfax.

So both groups had horses fall into the care of another..."uber-caretaker-equine" if you will.

Thinlómien · 01-06-2009, 02:58 PM

Yes, Beregond, that's what I was thinking of.

Please take the thread (unless you wish to be very gallant and give it to Pitchwife

).

Beregond · 01-06-2009, 03:02 PM

I actually do want to be very gallant and give it to him, because there's no way I would have connected the missing horses as the one thing in common! Like Morgoth, I merely "refined" what was there.

But I don't want to delay the thread. Pitchwife, if you see this, go ahead andask a new question! Otherwise, if a day has passed, I'll try to think one up myself.

12-30-2008, 12:24 AM	#2
Beregond Playful Ghoul Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,251	Pitchwife's connection is excellent, but I'll have a go. Perhaps I would be right in saying that the third-person narrative only follows the four hobbits and the three hunters? It does not follow Gandalf or Boromir when they are alone. I do not remember if Gimli, Legolas, and Aragorn are ever followed separately; maybe this is why you grouped them together. (but the narrative also follows Fatty Bolger, and maybe more) __________________ "Hope and memory shall live still in some hidden valley where the grass is green." Last edited by Beregond; 12-30-2008 at 12:27 AM.

01-06-2009, 12:29 PM	#3
Thinlómien Shady She-Penguin Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: In a far land beyond the Sea Posts: 8,093	Pitchwife is on the right track, but I'd like him to give a more precise answer. __________________ Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris

01-06-2009, 02:48 PM	#4
The Might Guard of the Citadel Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Oxon Posts: 2,205	Maybe that someone else deliberately got rid of the rides? So this spectre/Saruman/whatever scaring the horses off into the plains of Rohan and someone else letting the ponies ride away in search of Lumpkin. __________________ “The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.” Delos B. McKown

01-06-2009, 02:52 PM	#5
Beregond Playful Ghoul Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,251	I have a feeling it's more like: Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin had their ponies scared off, but they were found by another horse: Fatty Lumpkin. Aragorn, Legolas (and Gimli) had their horses, Arod and Hasufel, scared off, only to be found by another horse: Shadowfax. So both groups had horses fall into the care of another..."uber-caretaker-equine" if you will. __________________ "Hope and memory shall live still in some hidden valley where the grass is green."

01-06-2009, 02:58 PM	#6
Thinlómien Shady She-Penguin Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: In a far land beyond the Sea Posts: 8,093	Yes, Beregond, that's what I was thinking of. Please take the thread (unless you wish to be very gallant and give it to Pitchwife ). __________________ Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris

12-29-2008, 04:27 PM	#1
Pitchwife Wight of the Old Forest Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Unattended on the railway station, in the litter at the dancehall Posts: 3,329	Both groups lost their horses/ponies at some point of the story? (FSMP at Bree, ALG on the outskirts of Fangorn Forest after their encounter with Saruman/Gandalf/Saruman's spectre/Gandalf's spectre/whoever it may have been...)

01-06-2009, 03:02 PM	#7
Beregond Playful Ghoul Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,251	I actually do want to be very gallant and give it to him, because there's no way I would have connected the missing horses as the one thing in common! Like Morgoth, I merely "refined" what was there. But I don't want to delay the thread. Pitchwife, if you see this, go ahead andask a new question! Otherwise, if a day has passed, I'll try to think one up myself. __________________ "Hope and memory shall live still in some hidden valley where the grass is green."

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