After finally completing their mission to destroy the ring, the two beaten and battered Hobbits sit on the black slopes of Mount Doom and quietly give up any hopes of seeing their home again, at which point Gandalf appears alongside a trio of Great Eagles, rescuing Middle earth's heroes from a slow demise.
Thankfully, Frodo needn't bear this burden alone, and he is accompanied every step of the way by faithful friend, Samwise Gamgee. This involves travelling, largely by foot no less, from Frodo's home in Hobbiton to the crack of Mount Doom in Mordor, where the One Ring was first forged. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, how long would it take someone to walk from the Shire to Mordor and how much quicker would it be to fly the journey on the back of an eagle? In both Tolkien's original work and Peter Jackson's movie trilogy, young Frodo Baggins is tasked with carrying his uncle's world-threatening ring to the one place in the land where it can be unmade.
