Barrow-Down Dreams

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Huinesoron

I dreamed, in a very fitful night, that I was discussing Finrod on the Downs when someone pointed out that the quote from Nellas about the elvenking sending futile expeditions to die in the dry southlands was supposed to be about Finrod. This completely threw me, since it throws my view of him as wise and kind and just into complete disarray.

I am almost certain Nellas said nothing of the sort, but I am genuinely afraid to check.

hS

You mean you don't remember that passage when Finrod repeatedly sends envoys into the desert in the heart of..... Arvernien?

It's actually a bit strange, but on the Firsr Age map, the only real desert is in the north. (Meaning Anfauglith. Which I initially imagined as a temperature-neutral wasteland, but have read very pretty and convincing depictions of a proper hot/temperature-swingy desert. But at any rate dry.)