Walk To Rivendell" aka "The Eowyn Challenge"

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The Barrow Downs are in the lovely Purbeck Hills in the Dorset countryside of England - not too far away? and it's lovely and high nearly 700 feet above (the ever present) sea level.
Tom Bombadil's house is so full of good company and songs that it will be hard to leave but Rivendell calls....
For an elf I sure have some Hobbity tendancies - drinking, second breakfast, maps, music! Will be spending the MayDay bank holiday walking and will hopefully be crossing the BarrowDowns in the right mileage and making my way to the Great Eastern Road. Can only persuade my little Hobbit to accompany me and keep the Barrow-wights at bay.

Suddenly Tom's talk left the woods and went leaping up the young stream, over pebbles and worn rocks, and among small flowers in close grass and wet crannies, wandering at last up on to the Downs. They heard of the Great Barrows, and the green mounds, and the stone- rings upon the hills and in the hollows among the hills.
A shadow came out of dark places faraway, and the bones were stirred in the mounds. Barrow-wights walked in the hollow places with a clink of rings on cold fingers, and gold chains in the wind.