contemporaryelfinchild:morbidfinwe:magicbunni:arrogantemu:wanderingswallow:Finally, a decent overlay
contemporaryelfinchild:morbidfinwe:magicbunni:arrogantemu:wanderingswallow:Finally, a decent overlay map of Middle Earth and Beleriand! I had no idea that so much of Thargelion was still there.Worth noting how much of the Lord of the Rings - indeed, how much of Middle-Earth - is post-apocalyptic, picking through the half-salvaged scraps of a drowned world. Poetic. And true.Except Beleriand isn’t to scale with the LotR map - Christopher Tolkien indicated that only two of the maps (one LotR and one Silm) are even possible to be lined up, and in that the Beleriand map is at twice the scale of the LotR map. Beleriand should be a lot smaller. The reference points also aren’t lined up - Tol Himring/Himling (depending on the map) is just off the coast of Lindon, not way out in the blue, and the LOTR map they used doesn’t even include other reference points like Tol Fuin.Here’s a slightly more accurate map (in terms of scale):(made by me, using the First Map (composite) and Second Silmarillion Map. They’re not entirely to scale with each other, but given that the LotR map supposedly represents a round world while the Silm map supposedly represents a flat world that’s not actually possible. Used those two because they’re the ones Christopher Tolkien indicated are a) more-or-less contemporary and b) more-or-less to scale with each other, which most of the maps aren’t. Also the First Map is more complete, with more of the reference points)And another, zoomed in with partial transparency for the overlay:Thank you so much for finally making a layover that is truly to scale! -- source link
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