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Apr 3, 9:31pm
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Walk to Rivendell... and Beyond! AN EXPLANATION & HISTORY & LINKS
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In 2003, a LotR-themed fitness website called The Éowyn Challenge was created based on (and supported by) Karen Wynn Fonstad's book, The Atlas of Middle-earth. Her book is jam-packed with detailed maps she created based on the stories of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit and includes extensive information on each of the journeys by The Fellowship (LotR) and The Company (TH).
On March 18, 2003, jordan the discursive found The Éowyn Challenge website and got us on the Road. TORn members began participating in The Éowyn Challenge and created our own Walk to Rivendell... and Beyond! thread where we shared our weekly progress. Now, over 20 years later, we have adjusted our WtR updates to once during the first week of each month... but we're still on the move!
For The Éowyn Challenge website, Ms. Fonstad created 20 charts with day-by-day, mile-by-mile progress of Tolkien's characters based on the maps in her book. We use these charts to log our own mileage as we join them in their travels through Middle-earth. The charts can be found in The Éowyn Challenge Tools Page (scroll down) with links to cut/paste and help you track your progress.
The idea is to pick any chart you'd like to travel and keep track of your mileage as you walk or perform other activities and apply your effort to those charts. Soon you will find you've travelled the 458 miles from Bag End to Rivendell, then the 462 miles to Lothlórien... and so on until you finally reach the Grey Havens. Heads-up... these mileage charts for The Hobbit end at the Lonely Mountain. I had some fun making up my own charts for Bilbo and Gandalf's trip home.
A great way to start is to copy/paste the Bag End to Rivendell chart from The Éowyn Challenge Tools Page (scroll down for full list), then start your journey by walking, exercising, biking, yard work, house cleaning... any way that keeps you on the road. The best part of our Walk to Rivendell is that there are no rules of how to achieve your goals. Just have fun and keep going until you fulfill your own personal Quests. If you have a break and get delayed, just pick up where you left off and keep on going! There's no way to fail :)
The website for the WtR explains things more clearly. Please check out The Éowyn Challenge site, especially the Home page and the Tools page containing all of the site's Walk charts.
See you on the Road!!!
We have been there and back again.
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(This post was edited by grammaboodawg on Apr 3, 9:31pm)
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