I have been reading and re-reading The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings for 50 years and, of course, studying the maps drawn by J.R.R. Tolkien and his son Christopher. A few years ago I started to think it was a shame that the places not directly involved in the story are shown pretty well blank on the maps. In adding to Tolkien's map by filling some of the blank areas I wanted to say how Tolkien's writing had shown me Middle-earth as a real place, how if "Here be Dragons", there must be a landscape for the dragons to inhabit.
Barbara Halpern Strachey’s Journeys of Frodo (1981) presents 51 meticulously hand-drawn maps tracing the Fellowship’s paths across Middle-earth, a work that remains foundational to understanding Tolkien’s geography.
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A collection of personal projects exploring the landscapes of fiction — from camping design inspired by Tolkien’s journeys, to 3D terrain models of Dune’s Arrakis and Pratchett’s Ankh-Morpork.
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