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I was looking through the timeline for something else, and just-- you mean to tell me there's a ninety year gap between Celebrimbor going "wait shit we've been had", and the war actually starting? Somehow I've never noticed that, somehow I'd convinced myself the time was shorter
That actually changes a lot of how I've been imagining it! Like, ninety years is plenty of time to actually sit down together and plan things. The attack didn't come with barely the time to prepare enough to send a warning to allies and send the Rings away. Everyone must've seen it coming way off, enough to actually prepare armies, prepare their cities and strongholds, and their people, for sieges and battles. (I wonder how many civilians in Eregion took that as their chance to get somewhere away, or at least send their children away, while they had the time to do it somewhat on their own terms, choose what things to bring with them, etc. And how many thought that surely Eregion was strong enough to stand, surely it would be fine if they stayed here, in the home that was so dear to them. It might suck for a while, but it'd be fine, right? In the end, surely Eregion would survive, surely they wouldn't have to leave... right?)
And Sauron still wiped Eregion out like nothing! And then proceeded to drive the rest of the elves into a really tight corner, and come damn near to wiping them out, before the Númenorean army got there to help!
Like, that's... kinda scary to think about. Like not that Sauron isn't a serious threat anyway, but there is a difference between taking someone near completely by surprise with a swift attack and so wiping them out, and wiping someone out who knew you'd be attacking and had decades to prepare
travel distance in rings of power is weird
I think it is very strange that Galadriel and Halbrand travelled from Mordor to Eregion in only 6 days. In lotr Boromir travelled almost the same distance in 110 days. (I looked this up on a wiki). Even if he lost his horse in Tharbad, it should still take Galadriel more than 6 days. She is travelling with a mortally wounded person, therefore she should be more careful and probably take longer than if she was alone. The speed they apparently travelled with should have killed Halbrand long before they even made it to Eregion.
I have heard it said we are the uninvited.
We are the unwelcome.
We should take our misfortune elsewhere.
But I hear your mother's voice,
over the tide.
and she whispers in my ear,
"Oh, but if they saw, my darling.
Even half of what you have.
If only they saw.
They would say kinder things, surely.
—Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer