Walk to Rivendell

Tour by Ranger Jewel

120-124 Miles

On our trip around the downs, we've come to a "...deep dike with a steep wall on the further side." Tom Bombadil told the hobbits that this had been the boundary line of one of the kingdoms of old. It's interesting to imagine the great civilization of the Men of the Westernesse here, centuries ago.

We'll walk through a gap in the old wall and then turn nearly due north toward the Great East Road. Watch your step as you cross that dike!

Acknowledgments: Quotations from The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien.  Maps by The Atlas of Middle Earth, Karen Wynn Fonstad, Houghton Mifflin, 2001, posted here with permission from the author.  This page is meant to supplement these books and not to replace them.  We recommend their use to fully enjoy your journey!