Walk To Rivendell" aka "The Eowyn Challenge"

[The Barrow-Wight]

www.barrowdowns.com is working again, and the Walk to Rivendell page is now functioning as well.

I was surprised at the number of e-mails I recieved about missing the page. I had no idea it was being used as much as it is. I'm sorry for the time you were unable to access the page, and I do hope you continue to use and enjoy it in the future.

Have fun, and keep walking!

[elfearz1]

Thank you Barrow-Wight!


Oi! I haven't been tracking my walking in a long,long time. As you can see from the last date I posted here. I finally started tracking again and here is where I am at:
You have walked 915 miles.
You have passed Caras Galadon.
It is 7 miles to the next landmark.
You have 7 miles to reach Caras Galadon.

Suddenly they came out into the open again and found themselves under a pale evening sky pricked by a few early stars. There was a wide treeless space before them, running in a great circle and bending away on either hand. Beyond it was a deep fosse lost in soft shadow, but the grass upon its brink was green, as if it glowed still in memory of the sun that had gone. Upon the further side there rose to a great height a green wall encircling a green hill thronged with mallorn-trees taller than any they had yet seen in all the land. Their height could not be guessed, but they stood up in the twilight like living towers. In their, many-tiered branches and amid their ever-moving leaves countless lights were gleaming, green and gold and silver.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Well, for a while I've been averaging over three
miles a day (in specific measured walking times,
not general getting about).

Btw, I believe if you add up the mileage on Walking
to Rivendell it's about 7,816 miles. I wonder what
the mileage is to go totally around the coasts of
England, Scotland and Wales.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

After losing my tracking papers years ago, I stopped walking along with the challenge. I can't remember well, but I think that I walked all the way to Bree before I left my folder filled with my documents on a plane.

As we went on a walk today, my mum and brother decided we needed to have some sort of walking regimen. I suggested the Eowyn Challenge, and here we go! I will print off the distances tonight and we will get a Middle-earth map that I don't mind marking on, so we can visualise our progress. I am afraid that we have become rather sedentary recently and it's about time that we fix that. We will decide whether or not we want to do a Hobbit themed journey to coincide with the second Hobbit movie release. Either way, I think that this year is a great year to resurrect this thread! Let's walk with Bilbo!

[Gil-Galad]

Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior

I suggested the Eowyn Challenge

I imagined the Eowyn challenge more as pretending you are a man to get in a group of guys and kill the witch king.

[HerenIstarion]

Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior

Let's walk with Bilbo!

I used to walk and IIRC I got past Rivendell but then lost track

I guess I will try to revive my measurement habits (unless I forget and if I manage to locate my old pedometer ) to walk with Bilbo

[Galadriel55]

I would walk, but me and pedometers just don't agree with each other.

I mean I would walk anyways (try not to...), but without measuring. I suppose I can use google maps to measure out my long trips, but what about, you know, up and down the school hall?

[Aganzir]

Funnily enough, I thought of this just a few days ago. I am tempted to take part.