Sometimes, folk would ask why Glorfindel felt the need to drill Imladris' soldiers so long, and so hard. How one elf could be so determined to see almost every sunrise and greet it with a punishing run over the valley's steeper paths.

The why is because it takes only finding one of the guards and a brief command to bring the entire force on alert, and he doesn't have to watch and make sure that word spreads - he can safely leave that in the hands of others and go chase down his lord. There's a fear he's harboring, that he's trying to dismiss - it can't be, because there was no sign of danger, none at all, he was through that pass just last week and his greatest foe was sheer boredom.

But there would be no call to rush for the horses if it was yrch at the borders.