Walking to Bree Challenge

[lady_branwyn]

Today I reached the next milestone in the "walking to Bree" challenge--the woods above Woodhall (46 miles total). Didn't see any Black Riders or elves. "The Atlas of Middle-earth" has the hobbits walking at 3.5 miles per hour for this part of their journey. That's pretty fast for their short little legs.

Comments

[curiouswombat]

That is fast for their little legs - and doesn't seem to allow for any breaks for sustenance at all!

[lady_branwyn]

Surprising they would push themselves to go that fast--until they run into that first Black Rider, there isn't any real sense of urgency.

[marta_bee]

I've often wondered about that. Hobbits are described as "hardy at need" or something along those lines, and I guess Frodo at least could be thinking he'd lingered too long or something? But it hardly seems to match the idyllic jaunt I remember thinking that part of the book to be.

[lady_branwyn]

When they are in Lothlorien, "The Atlas of Middle-earth" has them jogging at 4mph! But then some of the journeys on horseback are oddly slow at only 5 or 6 mph.