Recommended most highly for anyone who is a fan of Tolkien's Middle Earth, and to anyone who would love to visit Tolkien's Middle Earth (who fondly and longingly imagines and dreams of one day being able to set foot on Middle Earth). And most importantly (at least for me), Karen Wynn Fonstad's The Atlas of Middle Earth also demonstrates how Middle Earth as a whole, as a world has changed in shape, size and features since the First Age (The Elder Days). A detailed and fascinating array of both general and specific maps are presented and featured, helping readers not only visualise but also navigate the many paths taken by elves, dwarves, men, hobbits and others during the three ages of Middle Earth. Indeed, Karen Wynn Fonstad's The Atlas of Middle Earth truly is one of my favourite and most treasured reference books of all time, period! For this expansive and informative "atlas" is not only a wonderful tome simply in and of itself, it is of course and naturally first and foremost primarily an enchanting and massively enlightening general companion to and important source of and for J.R.R. 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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