Woody End
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The travellers started
late after lunch and were delayed when they had to hide from the Black
Rider on a long straight level stretch of road. It was dusk when they
stopped for supper – say 6 miles from the lunch halt – and
perhaps another 2 miles before they met the Elves,
when they still had, as the Elves told them, ‘some miles to go’
before they reached greensward where they spent the night. So it was
a much longer and more strenuous day for them, more than 20 miles in
all, I reckon, but at least they managed to fit in two suppers –
always a welcome treat for Hobbits.
The greensward was on the edge of a steep bluff overlooking the Stockbrook.
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