I had a long discussion with my sister about how many miles, exactly, Frodo and Sam traveled from their home in The Shire to the pits of Mt. Doom. Oddly, this information wasn’t readily apparent online, for all the Tolkien websites and maps and graphics out there. After some digging, I came up with this.
For those in the U.S., his trip began in Horton, Kansas, near the Kikapoo Indian Reservation, ended up in Fernandina Beach, Florida. That’s quite a walk, and transposable to a regular mileage map I guess. But I knew there was something better out there.
This site, courtesy of The Lord of the Rings Project, has an interactive graph showing you the days and miles walked per book. Much better!
To answer the question, it’s 1,800 miles. Those Hobbit feet must have been pretty calloused.
