The Long Walk to Mordor

[featured_spectre]

OK, so just by walking around at work, I worked out that I walk around 1 mile a day (give or take) just at the office. I made a spreadsheet covering the distance walked to Mordor from the shire.

 

My spreadsheet covers - daily distance covered, total distance walked, total distance remaining, average per day, and how many days left if you walked your average per day.

 

[ATTACH]27828[/ATTACH]

 

If anyone is interested and wants to do it also, feel free

 

*NB

 

I do walk to the office from the gym in the mornings, which is an additional mile, and at the gym I cycle anywhere between 10-20 miles, and row for anywhere between 1-5 miles depending on how tired I am.

Walk to Mordor.xlsx

Edited December 3, 2014 by featured_spectre
new sheet attached instead - click the link, not the attached files.

[beancole]

get a pedometer (android/iphone) I bet you do more than a mile I cover 3-4 in a good day.

[featured_spectre]

Thats what I was using. My office block isn't that large, so don't really cover much of a distance going around to everyone. When I worked in a school this could easily be changed to 5 miles.

[sonofsanta]

Pfft. Walking. I attend all support requests on the back of a giant eagle!

[Andrew_C]

at the gym I cycle anywhere between 10-20 miles

If Frodo had had a bike, those films would have been a sight shorter!

[featured_spectre]

Indeed it would have. However the story was fine as it was. I may do the hobbit journey as well.

[korifugi]

How does one simply walk that?

[Andrew_C]

I may do the hobbit journey as well.

Oh don't get me wrong; I think Jackson did a superb job on LOTR. The Hobbit however, has been so "padded" with fight scenes (so that is will make a good game) that I'm afraid it has lost its way. I've no problem with adding the stuff that was going on "around" Tolkin's book, but jeez, those rabbits?

[sonofsanta]

The bit that annoyed me was the storm giant things having a big scrap around the mountains in the first film. As BIG and DRAMATIC and EXCITING as it looks, I spent the whole scene wondering when it was going to end because it didn't matter at all. Completely irrelevant to characters and plot and so I had no investment in it at all. It was like a music video interval, it was so meaningless.

[featured_spectre]

How does one simply walk that?

 

Simple...2000 paces is on average 1 mile. Have a pedometer and calculate the distance. Job done. Plus you're not walking INTO mordor (despite the fact that is exactly what they did).

[LeMarchand]

You should add milestones in: "You have reached Rivendell!" "You'll need a torch - you have reached the Mines of Moria" etc.

[featured_spectre]

Oooh good idea. Will do that!

[featured_spectre]

Major milestones for Mordor added!

 

Walk to Mordor.xlsx

[Ephelyon]

One does not simply walk into Mordor.

[AdamzB]

OK, so just by walking around at work, I worked out that I walk around 1 mile a day (give or take) just at the office. I made a spreadsheet covering the distance walked to Mordor from the shire.

 

My spreadsheet covers - daily distance covered, total distance walked, total distance remaining, average per day, and how many days left if you walked your average per day.

 

[ATTACH]27822[/ATTACH]

 

If anyone is interested and wants to do it also, feel free

 

*NB

 

I do walk to the office from the gym in the mornings, which is an additional mile, and at the gym I cycle anywhere between 10-20 miles, and row for anywhere between 1-5 miles depending on how tired I am.

 

Wow that's amazing. Well done and thanks for sharing this.

[featured_spectre]

@AdamzB pick up the newer sheet, it has major milestones

[JJonas]

any Game of Thrones fan care to add Westeros distances to this?

 

I know Kings Landing to Winterfell is 1500 miles