Walk to Mordor

Posted on by Bart

I have this magic invisibility ring that I would like to destroy. Time for a little walk to Mordor!

LOTRproject

The site LOTRproject has a really nice map of Frodo’s journey. But what I’m really looking for is a way to track the real distance I walk towards Mordor.

The Conqueror

I also found The Lord of the Rings virtual challenge by The Conqueror. This tracks your walking progress as you advance towards Mount Doom. Along the way, you get story extracts and actual postcards to motivate you to complete your quest.

But with over 200€ for the full Lord of the Rings bundle, it find a bit too expensive. For that money, I may as well hire an eagle to bring me to Mordor.

Walk with Frodo

But then I found Walk with Frodo. This is a free widget for Garmin smartwatches. And it does exactly what I expect: It counts your steps towards Mordor, and you get information about what you encounter along the way.

So now I’m on my way to Mordor!

Or maybe… maybe I don’t really need to destroy that ring. I could keep the precious little thing for myself, right?

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Published by Bart

If you are familiar with Lord of the Rings, then you have probably already heard of Gandalf the Grey, Saruman the White, or maybe even Radagast the Brown. And perhaps you even read somewhere that there are even two more wizards, of which even Gandalf doesn’t remember the name anymore. But did you know that there is a sixth wizard called Bart (referred to as Baruman by some)? While the other wizards were fighting wars over a single ring, Bart was collecting hundreds of rings playing Sonic the Hedgehog. Furthermore, Bart used his Palantir to watch Star Wars instead of challenging Sauron. And finally he visited the libraries to study ancient lore, mostly found in comic books. Now however, Bart has grown up, married a sorceress, and they have two sweet little hobbits. You can follow Bart’s adventures on geekstuff.blog.