Greatest Accomplishments Thread...

[Dúnedain]

Ok, last night I read a passage in Unfinished Tales that made me think of what a great accomplishment this one act was. So with that I thought that a thread by a character in any Tolkien work or what have you would be a neat thread to have

Post your favorites or even those that you simply find amazing.


Here is the one I read last night:

From Unfinished Tales; IV The Hunt for the Ring: (ii) Other Versions from the Story:

But when Sauron learned of Gollum's capture by his enemies the situation was drastically changed. When and how this happened cannot of course be known for certain. Probably long after the event. According to Aragorn Gollum was taken at nightfall on February 1st. Hoping to escape detection by any of Sauron's spies he drove Gollum through the north end of the Emyn Muil, and crossed Anduin just above Sarn Gebir. Driftwood was often cast up there on the shoals by the east shore, and binding Gollum to a log he swam across with him, and continued his journey noth by tracks as westerly as he could find, through the skirts of Fangorn, and so over Limlight, then over Nimrodel and Silverlode through the eaves of Lórien, and then on, avoiding Moria and Dimrill Dale, over Gladden until he came near the Carrock. There he crossed Anduin again with the help of the Beornings, and passed into the Forest. The whole journey, on foot, was not much short of nine hundred miles, and this Aragorn accomplished with weariness in fifty days, reaching Thranduil on the twenty-first of March.

First of all it's one thing to go 900 hundred miles on foot, but to do it in 50 days is unbelievable! That is an average of 18 miles per day for 50 straight days! Of course that doesn't account for any obstacles he faced and don't forget he had Gollum with him the whole time!