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275 – Who’s Gonna Ride Your War Horses?

The Prancing Pony Podcast

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Tolkien and Mary on a Little Saggie-Great Pony

Tolkien explains that they traveled slowly by hidden path in lower mountains, doing only about 35 miles per day. That does sound slow. I think you and I might even have been able to keep up on foot. Yeah. Maybe with the terrain being what it is. And really how much more quickly could they have gone given that terrain? Remember, they're trying to be secretive here. Back to the text.

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