Dr. Bret Devereaux

And I was like, yeah.

But so like, it's a doable pace.

It's a brisk pace.

This is a small company moving at speed.

And we are told that Isildur is looking to move fast.

yeah yeah yeah he's he has a very specific timeline that he wants to adhere to yeah that he wants to move and and i think it's interesting that like we can see like there are two things pushing him to move fast right both he's like he really wants to see his family he's left them in ribbondale but also like you can tell he is he is becoming really worried about this ring yeah yeah he is

Like what he did not realize a year prior, he has now begun to realize too late.

Sort of the tragedy of the moment is that Isoltor comes to the right conclusion too late.

Yeah, it can be a factor.

It's really hard to get a sense of exactly where Middle Earth is in, like, in latitude sometimes.

And, you know, so, like, calculating daylight hours.

You know, the good news is that, like, your marching times don't vary hugely season to season.

Because, yeah, you are losing daylight hours.

But that just means that, like, your dawn and twilight hours, that's camp set up and break down anyway.

One does wonder if this contributes to the eventual surprise of this company, right?

That they're going to end up enveloped without quite seeing it coming.

And it might be easier to do that, especially given that, you know, orcs move at night.

You know, they have more moving time.

I'm not sure it would be an enormous influence.

Evidently, it doesn't slow them down at all.