Tolkien's legendarium, the home of the immortal Valar on the continent of Aman, far to the west of Middle-earth he used the name Aman mainly to mean Valinor. Valinor ( Quenya : Land of the Valar) or the Blessed Realms is a fictional location in J. On the west of The Great Sea, far to the West of Middle-earth The Undying Lands, Eressëa, The Deathless Lands, The Blessed Realm, The Uttermost West, Aman
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.Fictional location in J. In the paperback revision of a hardcover that is out of print, cartographer Fonstad here details that aspect of these stories. David Langford, .uk -, Tolkien loved maps and geography played a great importance in his books. It's all done tremendously seriously and would make a fine gift for enthusiastic Tolkien fans, except that they'll have bought it already. Thematic maps show Middle-Earth's distribution of climate, geological features, vegetation, people, and (most importantly to Tolkien) languages.
War maps cover the saga's notable battles, up to the hopeless last stand at Mordor gate and the tiny later skirmish known in Shire records as the Battle of Bywater. There are local maps of key places like the Mines of Moria, Lothlorien, Isengard, Minas Tirth, the Tower of Cirith Ungol, and the volcanic Mount Doom. She fills in gaps and details in the familiar Third Age maps from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, goes back in time to map Middle-Earth's First and Second Ages, and reconstructs the route and timescale of every important journey in the stories. Karen Wynn Fonstad is a qualified geographer and cartographer who first mapped Middle-Earth in 1981 and has since added much new detail based on those endless volumes of drafts, abandoned passages, alternative versions, and laundry lists published since Tolkien's death. The publishing world is full of Tolkien spinoff products, some trivial and ephemeral-but some, like this thoroughly researched atlas, are genuinely classy. An extensive appendix and an index help readers correlate the maps with Tolkien's novels. Plans and descriptions of castles, buildings, and distinctive landforms are given, along with thematic maps describing the climate, vegetation, languages, and population distribution of Middle-earth throughout its history. Hundreds of two-color maps and diagrams survey the journeys of the principal characters day by day - including all the battles and key locations of the First, Second, and Third Ages. Authentic and updated - nearly one third of the maps are new, and the text is fully revised - the atlas illuminates the enchanted world created in THE SILMARILLION, THE HOBBIT, and THE LORD OF THE RINGS.
Here is the definitive guide to the geography of Middle-earth, from its founding in the Elder Days through the Third Age, including the journeys of Bilbo, Frodo, and the Fellowship of the Ring. Karen Wynn Fonstad's THE ATLAS OF MIDDLE-EARTH is an essential volume that will enchant all Tolkien fans.
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