i' minui arad

The first day....

I rose before the sun today, just as the sky was beginning to lighten. I am unaccustomed to early rising, but I suppose it is something I shall have to get used to.

Tela rode fast and hard, as promised. It is now mid-day, and I have stopped so that she may rest, and graze. We have reached the Glanduin river, which I had not hoped to reach so soon. I take my meal at the foot of the Misty Mountains, according to my map, and not fifty miles west from here the Glanduin meets the Greyflood, which becomes Bruinen further north. Looking at the small pass that the Glanduin takes through the mountains, a strange feeling comes over me, as if there is something on the other side that I must go to. But that would take me away from the route that Elrond planned for me.
But still, I wonder....

I dare not tarry for long, already the sun has moved quite a bit. I am drawn to follow the river through the mountains, though it may not be wise. But then again, my intuition is my greatest chance of survival....