1606 from Bag End to Mt. Doom sounds about right, Alatįriėl; but now remember that we'll already be at Rivendell. So we don't have to go to Rivendell *again*. (Phew...)
The Encyclopedia of Arda has this to say:
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Dates: 25 December III 3018 - 25 March III 3019 (92 days)
Location: A journey of roughly 1,200 miles from Rivendell to Orodruin in Mordor
The quest of the Wise to bring the One Ring to Orodruin, and there destroy it. Nine set out on the quest, the Company of the Ring, but only two succeeded in reaching Mount Doom: Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee.
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Note the phrase "roughly 1200 miles". Alatariel, if you figured 1606 from Bag End to Mount Doom, then we can subtract Rivendell from that-- right?-- and we get:
1606 - 458 = 1148 from Rivendell to Mt. Doom.
Which is not that far off from 1200.
(And they did it in 3 months or 92 days, which works out to about 12.5 or 13 miles per day.)
I doubt we could do it in three months [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] in winter [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] but if we give ourselves some time, it sure would be fun.
Fun, did I say? What will we do for the Mordor section?!? Yeeek!
Rae has a point about the extended date, though. What about the release of the Collectors' Edition Video, which will probably be sometime in November 2004? Or even, Bilbo and Frodo's birthday, 22 September 2004?
At that rate we could keep up our current paces, more or less. 2 or 3 miles a day.
[ May 12, 2003: Message edited by: mark12_30 ]