While the Eowyn Challenge started back during the release of the Lord of the Rings films, I’ve just been alerted to this fabulously geeky fitness challenge. The over-all walk is, as fans know, thousands of miles; the first leg, from Hobbiton to Rivendell is 458 miles alone. While the distances for individual days usually top out at twenty miles and are sometimes as little as half a mile, the Eowyn Challenge is about meeting the overall larger distances by certain key dates, so people can fit their journey to Mordor into their everyday lives.
