Rivendell was hard to find because there were so many other homes and there were so many places to look with all the hills and mountains
Blight means ruin and disaster. Words and phrases that indicate and support this meaning are: "the last bitter hour" (denoting death), "stern agony, and shroud, and pall" (also denoting death, but this time in an even more literal way), "breathless darkness", "make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart" (these phrases definitely imply a disaster that takes our breath away).
Yes, it would. An alliteration is the repetition of the same sound, usually initial, in two or more words. This term normally applies to consonants and accented initial vowel.
Once the cow wouldn't walk into the pen, Jane started prodding him with a stick.
D hes content with his life