Don Marshall

All right.

So we recall from last week when we learned that at the dates of the disaster in the latitude of Imladris, which they were approaching, there were at least 11 hours of daylight.

That means 13 hours of night or thereabouts.

Yeah.

I mean, given the time of year, there's going to be a little less sun during the day.

Tolkien had said the Shire was meant to be at the latitude of Oxford, and Rivendell is, of course, due east of the Shire, so we can actually calculate this in the real world.

Given a date of October 4th and the latitude of Oxford, we are looking at 11 hours and 25 minutes of daylight.

That certainly fits, and that would also mean that twilight hits around 7 p.m.

I love obscure Lord of the Rings facts so much.

This is great.

I love that we can do this.

That's so cool.

So just from that math, that would mean that he's covered 21 or more miles in five hours, which is an astonishing 14-minute mile pace.

And it's not going to win him any marathons, but, you know, it might save his life, maybe.

It's certainly still fast when you consider that he'd already marched 21 miles to begin with, or thereabouts, about 20 miles, 23 miles a day, I think is what we figured out their pace was.

Right.

So to cover that much distance after covering that much distance, it's insane.

Right.

And remember that they would usually cover that much distance during the 11-hour day, not the five-hour night.

So that just becomes...