Don Marshall

in terms of the amount of effort that he's had to make.

Right.

I mean, in this case, it's two marathons essentially back to back in armor, you know, all day, all day.

That's intense.

Yeah.

And that's, and that feels superhuman.

And I think this is where the, uh, Numenorean bloodline sort of comes into play here.

It's, it's very clear that Isildur is, is above.

But this is actually a reverse Iron Man because it's after the run, he has to get in the water.

Oh,

This is really bad because he's exhausted, which is the last thing you need if you're going to try to swim across a river with such a heavy current.

He has little hope that he would make it across.

So the despair isn't, I will never make it across the river.

The despair is something else because he does have some hope, granted very little, but he has a tiny bit of hope that he'll make it across.

How hard is it to get across here?

Well, how wide is the Anduin?

We're not really told, but it is the big river, right?

This is the great river.

If we look at other real world rivers of its length and of its drainage, and we consider here that the Anduin is near the flats where it's actually going to be wider, it is likely to be between at least a quarter mile and possibly as wide as a half a mile across.

So we're talking 400 to 800 meters of swimming, all while he's facing a current that's trying to push him south.