Otaku-sempai
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Jun 9 2020, 8:56pm
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To put Elrond's journey into perspective: according to Tolkien's chronology, he left Rivendell with Arwen on May 1 and arrived at Minas Tirith on 1 Lithe: the trip took sixty days. It took the Company the same length of time, if we subtract the month spent in Rivendell. Subtract the distance by road from Dunharrow by horse (it took the Rohirrim five days): So if the Muster took place on March 10 (never mind that Aragorn had been gone for two days by then), Elrond would have had to set out on January 15, while the Fellowship was escaping the Balrog.
Agreed that Elrond's timeline for reaching Dunharrow/Harrowdale makes no sense, but it is an easy one to ignore given everything else that's going on. It's one of the things that only comes to my attention after the movie is done, and only if I'm specifically thinking about it. Maybe the difference is that, by the time of the second and third Hobbit movies I was very conscious and sensitive to Peter Jackson's excesses, much more than when the LotR films were released.
In a related matter, it is possible that Jackson's Battle of the Hornburg takes place around or before Aragorn's birthday of March the First. That would be an explanation for him telling Eowyn that he's 87 years old when he would have turned 88 by this point in the book. Either that or Peter just screwed up his age the same way he screwed up Bilbo's year of birth.
#FidelityToTolkien
(This post was edited by Otaku-sempai on Jun 9 2020, 9:03pm)
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