How many miles is it from the Shire to Mordor in "The Lord of the Rings"?
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One does not simply walk into Mordor, mainly because it's an absurdly long walk. Frodo and Sam spent six months trekking across Middle-earth to destroy the One Ring (and no, we're not going to talk about why the eagles couldn't just fly them there). J.R.R. Tolkien was so meticulous about his worldbuilding that scholars have been able to roughly calculate the mileage from Bag End to Mount Doom. How many miles is it from the Shire to Mordor?
