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What happened to Pelmar and the originally sketched Arda?
I’m currently reading through The Silmarillion, and there is this map's discrepancy that I cannot get my head around.
First, there was this sketch of Arda with a central landmass Pelmar, the west and ...
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Are there any drawings showing the routes the three main companies followed in chapter two of the Return of the King?
Are there any drawings showing the routes that the three companies: Théoden, The Grey Company, Aragorn and Halbarad followed in the events in chapter 2, The Passing of the Grey Company, Lord of the ...
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Did Bilbo Baggins draw?
We know that Bilbo was fond of maps and lettering "even though his own writing was rather thin and spidery", but did Bilbo make his own maps or illustrate his adventures in the Red Book or 'There and ...
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Why didn't Frodo take a map with him?
As the Fellowship departed from the Rivendell, all the seasoned adventurers knew they will not follow Frodo to Mount Doom. So, the optimistic version is Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin going to the Mount ...
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Where are the Grey Havens?
I was looking at a map of Middle-Earth earlier, when I stumbled across a location labeled 'Grey Havens'. However, as I understand it, the Grey Havens are supposed to be quite far away, on a separate ...
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Is there a map of Frodo's journey during the Lord of the Rings?
Everybody loves the maps of Middle Earth. But has anyone ever plotted on the map of Middle Earth, Frodo's journey throughout the Lord of the Rings? Seeing as the book gives us a description of where ...
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Did maps in Middle-Earth have west on the top?
If the people of Middle-Earth made a map of their world or an area of it, did they put west on the top of the map? Or did they have north on the top like the map in the Lord of the Rings looks like? ...
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Is this map of Middle-Earth reliable? [duplicate]
I want to ask if this map of Beleriand (in the northwest of Middle-earth) is correct. I think it isn't because Beleriand should've been sank, and you can clearly see that there is Beleriand above ...
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Newly discovered map of Middle Earth: does it change anything?
I read this article with interest - in short, a working copy of the Middle Earth map was recently discovered and acquired by Oxford's Bodleian Library:
This map looks fascinating but does this ...
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Is there a map of Middle-earth during the second age?
Where can I find a map of Middle-earth during the Second Age circa SA 1600 (before the war of the Elves and Sauron)?
The following site (https://middle-earth.xenite.org/2013/01/09/do-any-maps-...
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Unknown feature on Middle-earth's map?
On Christopher Tolkien's map of Middle-earth, one feature has always caught my eye, and to my knowledge has never been explained: The mass in the middle of the Sea of Rhûn:
Has this ever been talked ...
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Why is Thangorodrim/Angband not visible in the provided map in "The Silmarillion"?
At least it is not visible in all versions I could lay hands on (German / English).
The map ends in the North with Hithlum and Anfauglith.
I ask because Angband is a core location in The Silmarillion ...
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Maps of Middle-earth
I am looking for a list* of maps of Middle-earth which appear only in JRR Tolkien's and CT's books and writings or were authorized by JRRT**.
From my reading so far I have:
The Hobbit:
"Thror's ...
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