Middle-Earth is larger than it looks! The trip from Hobbiton to Bree is the same distance as London to Nottingham (120 miles), from Bree to Rivendell is as London to Lands End (300 miles), and the whole quest, from The Shire to Mount Doom, like trekking from Dallas to L.A. (1350 miles) [via]
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