Valerio Lento for Mashable Italia talks about the Journey to Middle Earth:
A Company of Italian Hobbits is on a journey to throw the Ring into “Mount Doom”, aka Vesuvius
Who hasn't dreamed at least once of being a hobbit or an elf, dozing off in the woods of the Shire and setting off on an adventure to destroy an evil ring?
Know that someone actually did it.Nine men dressed up as characters from The Lord of the Rings they are retracing the journey of the Tolkien saga to throw the ring into Vesuvius. The reason? Raising funds to build a hobbit village in Abruzzo.
“We're leaving a little late because the hobbits are sleeping, the elves aren't arriving and the wizards, you know, are neither late nor early,” Samwise Gamgee, alias Nicolas Gentile, a 37-year-old pastry chef from Abruzzo, with heavy breathing and a sleepy face.
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