The coordinates for "The End of the Ring" geocache are:
N 33 X
W 117 Y
where X is 63317.062 divided by SUM and Y is 65310.999 divided by SUM
and where SUM is the sum of all the answer numbers from the other geocaches in this LOTR series.
You can check your answers for this puzzle on GeoChecker.com.
"‘Precious, precious, precious!’ Gollum cried. ‘My Precious! O my Precious!’ And with that, even as his eyes were lifted up to gloat on his prize, he stepped too far, toppled, wavered for a moment on the brink, and then with a shriek he fell. Out of the depths came his last wail Precious, and he was gone.
There was a roar and a great confusion of noise. Fires leaped up and licked the roof. The throbbing grew to a great tumult, and the Mountain shook. Sam ran to Frodo and picked him up and carried him out to the door. And there upon the dark threshold of the Sammath Naur, high above the plains of Mordor, such wonder and terror came on him that he stood still forgetting all else, and gazed as one turned to stone.
A brief vision he had of swirling cloud, and in the midst of it towers and battlements, tall as hills, founded upon a mighty mountain-throne above immeasurable pits; great courts and dungeons, eyeless prisons sheer as cliffs, and gaping gates of steel and adamant: and then all passed. Towers fell and mountains slid; walls crumbled and melted, crashing down; vast spires of smoke and spouting steams went billowing up, up, until they toppled like an overwhelming wave, and its wild crest curled and came foaming down upon the land. And then at last over the miles between there came a rumble, rising to a deafening crash and roar; the earth shook, the plain heaved and cracked, and Orodruin reeled. Fire belched from its riven summit. The skies burst into thunder seared with lightning. Down like lashing whips fell a torrent of black rain."
Tolkien, J.R.R. (2012-02-15). The Lord of the Rings
The FTF will be able to acquire the One Ring..
Original geocache contents include a Shadowfax statue, various LOTR rings, "The Return of the King" movie trading cards and custom LOTR map glass magnets. There are also alot of foreign coins.
Please trade only one geocache item.
This geocache is part of a new LOTR series. The final geocache in the series, "The End of the Ring", is a puzzle geocache. To find "The End of the Ring", each of the other geocaches in this series contains a piece of paper with a question about LOTR. The answer to each question is a number. The "The End of the Ring" geocache description will contain an equation to calculate the coordinates using all the numbers from the other geocaches in the series.
Bag End [LOTR] - GC4W87D
Weathertop [LOTR] - GC4WE75
The Council of Elrond [LOTR] - GC4WTFW
Battle of the Balrog [LOTR] - GC4X5Y7
Isengard Orc Battle [LOTR] - GC4XKFV
Battle of Helm's Deep [LOTR] - GC4Y9QZ
Forest Takeover [LOTR] - GC4YKZP
Finding Gollum [LOTR] - GC4Z16C
The Steward's Burning [LOTR] - GC4ZDER
Shelob, The Big Bad Spider [LOTR] - GC4ZVZZ
Gollum's Finger Snack [LOTR] - GC51T7P
The End of the Ring [LOTR] - GC52CY7