Patrick connects the travels of the Fellowship with his experience of hiking in the Smoky Mountains, which he found often boring yet also therapeutic, a time of silent thought yet also of growing closer to his companions. The hobbits encounter the awesome and terrible Gates of Argonath, their first experience of the greatness of the civilization of Gondor. Andrew dwells on the magical passage of time in Lothlorien.

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