Milestones for Your Journey (Compiled from the texts below and guesses.) Please send any corrections or additions to the Webmaster. |
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Mileage |
Mile Marker |
18 |
Slept in the Green Hill country |
32 |
Met black rider |
37 |
Met elves |
46 |
Camped West of Woodhall, in the Woody End. |
60 |
Maggot’s farm |
63 |
Traveling in the Marish, a fertile boggy area* |
70 |
Buckleberry Ferry |
73 |
Sleep in Crickhollow, Frodo’s intended new home, north of Buckleberry, a chief village in Buckland. Traveling through Buckland, an area of the Shire between Barnaduin and the Old Forest* |
78 |
Went through the tunnel gate; leave Shire; enter Old Forest |
93 |
Traveled through the Old Forest; Old Man Willow captures Merry and Pippin. |
98 |
Stayed at Bombadil's house at the east edge of the Old Forest. The Hobbits left Bombadil's house on ponies. They intended to head toward the Old East Road, but accidently turned into the Barrow Downs**, a place inhabited by evil Barrow-wights from Angmar and a place of great dread*. |
115 |
Captured by Barrow-wights, spend night in Barrow, rescued by Bombadil, travel with Bombadil. |
131 |
Bombadil departs. Traveling through Bree-land. |
135 |
Bree, hook up with Strider. |
147 |
After traveling by pony on a wandering course** they camp in the Western Chetwood, the forest of Bree-land. |
163 |
They have turned due east in the Eastern Chetwood, camp in Eastern Chetwood. |
179 |
They enter the Midgewater Marshes, and camp in the Midgewater Marshes. The Marshes are infested with midges and other insects.** |
194 |
Still traveling through Midgewater Marshes; camp on eastern edge. |
211 |
Have left Midgewater Marshes and camp near a stream from the hills. |
229 |
Traveling through Weather Hills; camp 12 miles north of Weathertop. |
241 |
Weathertop, in the southernmost of the Weather Hills, on which the Tower of Amon Sul was built.* From here, Aragorn says that it would take him “twelve days on his own feet.” |
251 |
They travel south of the Great East Road. An injured Frodo was riding on Bill the pony. They were seeking more wooded country south of the East Road. They entered some sort of valley or low country. “Four days passed without the ground or the scene changing much” (about 120 miles between Weathertop and the Last Bridge). |
361 |
They cross the Last Bridge which is the “easternmost on the Great East Road.”* It is also known as the Bridge of Mitheitheil, and it crosses the River Hoarwell. |
~385 |
After heading north along a ridge in the Trollshaws (woody area full of “trees with old twisted roots hung over cliffs and piled behind into mounting slopes of pine-wood), they turn southeast. |
~388 |
They discover Bilbo’s trolls. |
~392 |
They meet Glorfindel and follow the Great East Road again. |
~439 |
Meet Black Riders again. Frodo is alone on Glorfindel’s horse. |
~440 |
Frodo crosses the Ford of Bruinen which is where the Great East Road crosses the Loudwater. |
458 |
Rivendell! |
Sources |
Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ballantine Books *The Complete Guide to Middle-Earth, Robert Foster, Ballantine Books **Atlas of Middle-Earth, Karen Fonstad, Houghton-Mifflin. Journeys of Frodo, Barbara Strachey, Balantine Books. |