Map of Middle Earth

There and Back Again

1. The hobbit four travel from Bree to Rivendel. What distance did they travel? 100-110 leagues What is their displacement? 100-110 leagues

2. Aragorn and company receive their gifts from Lady Galadriel and set off from the river junction at Lorien. They travel to the falls at Emyn Muel and then run straight to Fangorn Forest to rescue Merry and Pippin. What distance did the travel? About 160 leagues What is their displacement? About 60 leagues

3. What was the distance of Bilbo’s journey from Hobbiton to the River Running then on up to the Lonely Mountain and back to his home in the Shire (Hobbiton)? 500-700 leagues What was his displacement? 0 leagues (his finishing point is right back to the starting point!)

4. a) Frodo and Sam leave Lorien and are displaced 142 leagues. List three places where they could be. Anorien, Entenmoors, Lonely Mountain (may be more possible answers)

b) They actually traveled a distance of 175 leagues, where are they and what should they do? Mordor, near the Mountain of Doom where they should destroy the ring!