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Walk to Rivendell... and Beyond!! September 2

grammaboodawg Elvenhome Sep 2 2024, 8:08pm Views: 19229 Walk to Rivendell... and Beyond!! September 2 Greetings Fellow Walkers!! Welcome to SEPTEMBER! Mercy, how TIME flies! ;) We're quickly approaching Bilbo & Frodo's birthday when the Fellowship grows and Walks from the Shire to Rivendell and all the other events before and after: Eowyn Challenge Site Charts THE LORD OF THE RINGS: · Bag End to Rivendell · Rivendell to Lorien · Lorien to Rauros · Rauros to Isengard - Merry and Pippin’s Path · Rauros to Isengard - Aragorn’s Path · Isengard to Minas Tirith - Gandalf and Pippin’s Path · Isengard to Minas Tirith - Aragorn’s Path · Isengard to Minas Tirith - Merry’s Path · Rauros to Mount Doom - Frodo and Sam’s Path · Minas Tirith to Morannon - Captains of the West Path · Morannon to Minas Tirith - The Return · The Road Home: Minas Tirith to Isengard · The Road Home: Isengard to Rivendell · The Road Home: Rivendell to Bag End · Bag End to the Grey Havens If you want to join our Hobbits on their long Quest (along with their Fellow Questers who join along the way), you can start here by following Frodo down from the door where it began on September 22nd. I'm at the point where I've been following Aragorn's Path: Isengard to Minas Tirith FOREVER! This week Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas and I have arrived at the Havens of Pelargir along with the Army of the Dead where we fought off the Fleet of Umbar. After the battle (if you want to call it that ;), Aragorn declares the Dead have fulfilled their oaths and so released them. NOW we have a ride by river to Minas Tirith!! *applause* The only pause suffered when we approached was by Legolas when he heard the cry of the gulls for the first time. *sigh* So how are you coming along on your Quest? Remember, each of us are going our own way and enjoying our own Quest. Though we are all, in a sense, in this together as we enjoy our days during our Walk to Rivendell :D Enjoy your days, take care, and I'll see you on the Road!! *waves fondly* We have been there and back again. TIME Google Calendar

grammaboodawg Elvenhome Oct 2 2024, 1:33pm Views: 18735 Walk to Rivendell... and Beyond!! October 2 Welcome Fellow Walkers! We've made it to Fall (in the Northern Hemi) and/or Spring (in the Southern Hemi)! The trees in Michigan are starting the season in fine form with colour bursting suddenly everywhere! The Fellowship is beginning to form as the hobbits follow a mysterious Ranger through the wilds as they make for Rivendell from Bree. Do you find yourself developing an itch to set out on a hike through the wilds or pick up a familiar book (or books) by Master Tolkien? I tend to wander into both. I can't resist the wonderful weather and personality of Fall in the farmlands were I live; but I also love to put on some fuzzy-warm sweats and settle in my comfy chair to read "The Lord of the Rings" (my annual visitation). What are your plans, and do they include some activities that welcome your new season weather Northern or Southern? Remember that every activity (cleaning *urp*, walking, yard work, etc.) can be converted in mileage that can put you in the Quest with our Fellowship via the Eowyn Challenge charts. I'm still on the move following "Isengard to Minas Tirith: Aragorn's Path" where we've commandeered the enemy's fleet and are sailing for Minas Tirith as fast as the winds will carry us! Sadly, in the far distance, we can see the glow of fires from the battle that's already started. TAKE CARE and have a great season! *waves fondly* I'll see you on the Road! We have been there and back again. TIME Google Calendar (This post was edited by grammaboodawg on Oct 2 2024, 1:35pm)

ArathornJax Nargothrond Oct 5 2024, 12:48am Views: 18085 Reading and Hiking I have a lot going on. However, after breaking my tradition of reading LOTR in the fall for the last 5 years, I opened the book on Bilbo/Frodo's birthday and started reading again. I am at The Ring Goes South now and have rediscovered my passion for Tolkien. I purchased The Fall of Gondolin and Beren and Luthien and will read those next. Fall IS my favorite season followed by spring. I have been hiking here in the mountains of Utah near by home several times now. The leaves are beautiful and one trail really reminds me of Frodo and Sam and company leaving The Shire as they headed out. I've hiked about 24 miles this fall for about 5 hikes. " . . . (we are ) too engrossed in thinking of everything as a preparation or training or making one fit -- for what? At any minute it is what we are and are doing, not what we plan to be and do that counts." J.R.R. Tolkien in his 6 October 1940 letter to his son Michael Tolkien.

grammaboodawg Elvenhome Oct 5 2024, 1:39am Views: 18063 ohhhh.... perfect :D You've just made me smile BIG TIME! Once you start reading it again, there's big trouble putting it down. I'm so glad you're back in the world again and that your hikes are now shared with the hobbits. I love this story so much! Well Done on the HIKING! Both the mileage and the beauty of it! *high five* Thank you! :D We have been there and back again. TIME Google Calendar

ArathornJax Nargothrond Oct 7 2024, 2:56am Views: 13463 Hiking Sticks Yes, it's been great! So sorry I put it off for so long! In addition I have a CD player in my 2020 Subaru Ascent so I am listening to the books on CD by Rob Inglis as I drive around. I'll take a picture of my hiking sticks that I have and use whenever I hike . . . " . . . (we are ) too engrossed in thinking of everything as a preparation or training or making one fit -- for what? At any minute it is what we are and are doing, not what we plan to be and do that counts." J.R.R. Tolkien in his 6 October 1940 letter to his son Michael Tolkien.

grammaboodawg Elvenhome Oct 29 2024, 11:12am Views: 5272 I'd love to see the hiking sticks :D I make them for my friends & family and am interested in what you like about yours I have 3 I've used for years. See you on the Road! *waves fondly* We have been there and back again. TIME Google Calendar

grammaboodawg Elvenhome Nov 1 2024, 2:26pm Views: 3981 Walk to Rivendell... and Beyond!! November 1 Greetings Fellow Walkers! Hail and well met on this November 1st! It's already NOVEMBER! T'is the start of a season filled with holiday gatherings, great food, lots of distractions and planning crowded into our still very busy days. But the excitement for what is coming makes for a very special time :) Are your plans for the coming weeks already forming? It's also a time of the year that can be very creative in accumulating mileage for your Quest. Remember that every activity can be converted into miles that will add up faster than expected! Shopping, cleaning *urp*, yard work to prep for the change in seasons... all will move you along on your way. I know I'm really paying attention to the activity to (hopefully) offset the foodstuff I plan to indulge in! Thanksgiving always promises to do damage... not to mention what Halloween just inflicted! GLORIOUS! I'm a victim of an outstanding Cider Mill half an hour away that makes the most amazing Cider, Caramel Apples, and Pastries! OMG! Anyway, back in Middle-earth, the Hunters and I have arrived by river to the edge of the Pelennor Fields where smoke rises from Minas Tirith and the battle is raging! HERE WE GO! So with this, I have completed the Eowyn Challenge chart Isengard to Minas Tirith - Aragorn’s Path. I've been at it since October 2023! I'm starting the next chart, Isengard to Minas Tirith - Merry’s Path. This will be my 4th trip with Merry since 2006. Tally ho! Enjoy your coming holidays... stay safe... and I'll see you on the Road! :D We have been there and back again. TIME Google Calendar

Iolani Ossiriand Feb 16 2025, 10:27pm Views: 952 Back from the Beyond Firstly, I can't tell you guys how pleased I am to discover that this thread is still going! It has literally been 10 years since I last posted. A lot has happened since then. Lately have been feeling the need to reconnect with past joys. So I dug out my old profile and discovered that you guys were still here! I'm so excited! I checked out the good ole' Eowyn Challenge page, but I am unsure if it has changed in the last ten years. Do I still log in? I couldn't find a place to, and I could have sworn that there was a page that basically had shields on it symbolizing my progress. But as I said, it's been ten years! So I am not sure. I am excited to be starting this again. I usually get a good about of walking done every day at my job, so I will be recording that. Trying to get back to tracking my health and exercise. Hope everyone is well! "It's like in the great stories Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And you didn't want to know the end...for how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But then you realize in the end it's just a passing thing, this shadow. A new day will come! And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stuck with you, that meant something. Even if you were too small to understand. But I think Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. The folk in those stories a lot of chances of turnin' back only they didn't. They kept going, because they were holdin' on to something." "What are we holding onto, Sam?" "That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it's worth fighting for!"