Tolkien doesn’t talk much about the
days spent travelling to Rivendell, glancing over large sections of travelling
to highlight key points in the trip. I have always wondered what the day in and
day out of the travelling looked like. Another part of me curses ever wanting
to find out since I am now living it. Walking every day is starting to get
tiresome, with very few milestones to pass and only several pages of reading
devoted to a stretch of 200 some odd miles, I am left with very little to
contemplate and a long way to walk.
Enter the title of my post. I’m sure
you’ve seen the movies where actions over an extended period of time are
condensed down into a montage of snapshots lasting a few minutes. The movie
adaptations of Lord of the Rings made good use of travel montages with helicopter
panorama shots of the fellowship trekking across beautiful and difficult
terrain. I could really use one of those right now, condensing the 200 miles I
had to walk into a manageable two minutes of the ridiculous moments (including
my flight from a cloud of midges). Send Me On My Way by Rusted Root is a song used in several movies (I’m thinking of Matilda and Ice Age
here) for these montages. I periodically play this song as I go, putting
together my own montage in my head of my journey so far. Imagining panorama
shots of me scaling my mountain trails, trudging through city streets, boulder
hopping over a river, shivering in the rain, slipping in mud, running from
clouds of bugs, singing ridiculous songs, stopping to take in stunning views, and
generally being ridiculous, helps to keep me going on my way to Rivendell. One
day, hopefully soon, I will get there and look back on this post with an
indulgent smile. But that day is not today. Today I continue on my way.
The Road Goes Ever ON and ON
~Daisy Buttons
The Road Goes Ever ON and ON
~Daisy Buttons
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