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   From: g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies   
      
   In message <2013032314483722578-omeallymdatgeemaildotcom@news.giganews.com>   
     Bill O'Meally  wrote:   
   > It took Theoden three days of difficult riding through the mountain   
   > passes to travel from Helm's Deep to Harrowdale. Aragorn and the Grey   
   > Company left the next day and moved swiftly over the plain, reaching   
   > Harrowdale in one day. Why the heck didn't Theoden travel over the   
   > plain?   
      
   Moving across the plain would have exposed the movement of the army to   
   Sauron's spies.   
      
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