Re: the AjMBtEN

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come to the very edge of the Wild, as some of you may know. Hidden
somewhere ahead of us is the fair valley of Rivendell where Elrond lives
in the Last Homely House. I sent a message by my friends, and we are
expected. That sounded nice and comforting, but they had not got there
yet, and it was not so easy as it sounds to find the Last Homely House
west of the Mountains. There seemed to be no trees and no valleys and no
hills to break the ground in front of them, only one vast slope going
slowly up and up to meet the feet of the nearest mountain, a wide land
the colour of heather and crumbling rock, with patches and slashes of
grass-green and moss-green showing where water might be.
Morning passed, afternoon came; but in all the silent waste there was
no sign of any dwelling. They were growing anxious, for they now saw
that the house might be hidden almost anywhere between them and the