[ArwenBaggins]

It was very cool last night, now that we are within five miles of Weathertop. We heard odd screeching early this morning, so Strider advised us we leave earlier than planed. No fire, no good food, and no sleep!
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We have walked 253 miles.
We have passed the Weather Hills (246).
We are only 5 miles from the ancient fortress of Weathertop.
We still have 205 miles to Rivendell.
In the morning they found, for the first time since they had left the Chetwood, a track plain to see. They turned right and followed it southwards. It ran cunningly, taking a line that seemed chosen so as to keep as much hidden as possible from the view, both of the hill-tops above and of the flats to the west. It dived into dells, and hugged steep banks; and where it passed over flatter and more open ground on either side of it there were lines of large boulders and hewn stones that screened the travellers almost like a hedge.