Introduction - Over Hill and Under Hill : Goblin-town - Out of the frying pan - Beorn's wide wooden halls - Attercop, Attercop - Thranduil's Caverns - Lake-town - Lonely Mountain - The Battle of Five Armies - The Lord of the Rings. Introduction - The Shire - Eriador - Wilderland - The Misty Mountains - The Brown Lands, the Wold, the Downs, and the Emyn Muil - The White Mountains - Mordor (and adjacent lands) - The Hobbit. Introduction - Refugee relocation - Advent of the dark years - Numenor - Voyages of the Numenoreans - The Realms in Exile - The last alliance - Kingdoms of the Dunedain (1050) - Battles (1200-1634) - The Great Plague (1636-37) - Wainriders and Angmar (1851-1975) - Deepening difficulties (2000-2940) - Migrations of Hobbits - Migrations of Dwarves - Regional maps. Introduction - Valinor - Beleriand and the lands of the north - The great march - The flight of the Noldor - Realms : before the great defeat - Menegroth, the thousand caves - Nargothrond - Gondolin - Thangorodrim and Angband - Coming of men - Travels of Beren and Luthien - Travels of Turin and Nienor - The battles of Beleriand - The First Battle - The Second Battle - The Third Battle - The Fourth Battle - The Fifth Battle - The Great Battle - The Second Age. Includes bibliographical references and index Hundreds of two-color maps and diagrams survey the journeys day by day - battles, castles, forests, far lands, distinctive landforms, climate, vegetation, and population. Authentic and updated - nearly one third of the maps are new with a fully revised text - it illuminates the enchanted world created in The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings. Here is the essential guide to the geography of Middle-Earth from its founding in the Elder Days through the Third Age, re-creating the journeys of Bilbo, Frodo, and the Fellowship of the Ring. Completely revised, Karen Wynn Fonstad's The Atlas of Middle-Earth is an indispensable volume that will enchant all Tolkien fans. Please see shipping calculator link: click here.Find your way through every part of Tolkien's great creation from Middle-Earth to the undying lands of the west. This matches Tolkien’s original spelling although it provides an incorrect rendering of the accurate spelling “Hithaeglir”. Three layers of paper have been added and the final version reads “Hithaiglin”. Fraser seems to have had some problems with the Misty Mountains. The present map was drawn by Eric Fraser in connection with the legendary 1981 BBC Radio adaptation, it appears, however to be entirely unpublished. There are thirty maps in the Bodleian’s Tolkien papers relating to The Lord of the Rings alone. The Hobbit would be published with two maps and the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings each contained a folded map (with an additional map printed within the text for The Fellowship of the Ring). 177).Īs stated by Catherine McIlwaine in Tolkien – Maker of Middle-Earth, “maps were an essential part of Tolkien’s world-building”. The other way about lands one in confusions and impossibilities, and in any case it is weary work to compose a map from a story…” (see Letters, 1981, p. Writing to Naomi Mitchison in 1954 Tolkien stated that, when writing The Lord of the Rings, “…I wisely started with a map, and made the story fit (generally with meticulous care for distances). 240 by 300mm., ink, watercolour and gouache drawing, signed “eric fraser” lower right, laid-down to card
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