No.221
Post some mother fucking maps!
Also assuming all anons are the Noldor in exile, which boards are which realms
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No.222
This one actually has Nogrod's and Belegost's positions completely wrong, don't know how they figured this one out.
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No.223
>>222
Comes with cool shit like this though
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No.224
One on the left has a bit too much embellishment, although includes all the woods and terrain which is nice.
Right one is perfect for making shit up in homebrews.
And this Arda map is hilariously wrong, but nice none the less. Think it's from Atlas of Middle-Earth I believe.
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No.225
And then there's this baby.
As far as post First Age Middle-Earth maps go, you have this, you don't need anything else.
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No.226
I've seen speculation maps of the rest of the world, with dwarf mountain homes labeled, but that was a lifetime ago on another computer. Good stuff here.
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No.227
>>226
That'd be a nice one.
All we know is that the last four are to the east and together in pairs, probably all at the Red Mountains.
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No.234
>>225
>that fucking resolution
holy shit.
You're reminding me of the mapboner that /tg/ used to give me.
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No.236
>>234
I know right!
I fucking love that map
I want to use it in something /tg/ related one day.
I wish there was one that good for Beleriand ;_;
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No.255
>>225
That's a great map, but it's missing Harad and it would be nice if it went at least as far as the Sea of Rhun
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No.256
>>255
We don't know about those areas to make something as extensive as this.
If you zoom in you'll see that map has just about every major location of the Second and Third ages.
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No.259
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Another map here
>>224
>And this Arda map is hilariously wrong, but nice none the less.
How it is wrong?
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No.263
>>259
Because it makes a mistake Tolkien readers sometimes make, and assumes that the inland sea of Helcar covered Mordor, when Tolkien himself stated it didn't.
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No.276
Those dorfs really knew how to dig.
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No.278
>>276
It was the biggest manor and occupied the entire space between one side of the mountain and the other, stretched beneath all three of the Misty Mountains biggest peaks (Redhorn, Silvertine and Cloudyhead)
Incidentally, the Tower of Durin where Gandalf finally ends the Balrog is on Silvertine.
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No.280
>>225
This really gives a good idea of just how far they had to fucking walk to destroy that ring.
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No.284
>>280
Actually the scale is definitely wrong, unless they completely flattened the entire thing.
No way is that over 20 leagues. 20 leagues is already retarded long.
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No.288
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No.289
>>288
10/10
I've never seen some of those.
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No.296
>>259
>>224
>Endor
Excuse me?
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No.335
>crack open my old copy of The Hobbit
>look at the map
>for some reason I decided to highlight a bunch of shit in red marker
>it bled through a bunch of pages
I don't even know what the fuck I was thinking.
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No.337
>>335
>writing in books without proper planning.
Did you do it as a kid?
I have a few books like that.
My kid self was a shitter.
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No.554
>>225
this gave me a boner
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No.800
Here's a couple I found while researching for a /tg/ campaign
The topography in the first one is a bit wonky, and the second one is pure speculation, but god they're good.
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No.802
>>800
Making a detailed shoreline for the whole continent and then leaving such huge swathes of emptiness close to the known area seems weird. For example, you'd imagine the area of the main Númenórean settlement around Umbar to be something else than endless desert.
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No.811
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No.812
>>811
That seems an odd assertion. If you are going to make huge ammount of fanfic shoreline, you might as well come up with fanfic geography to regions close to north-western Middle Earth.
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No.822
>>225
The full MERP map is autistic as fuck though.
>>263
>implying Mordor even existed in the first age and Tolkien wasn't confusing himself with the Sea of Rhun
The position and size of Helcar matches with his own personal sketches of (this version of) Arda.
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No.840
>>822
It is possible he was confusing it with Rhun, but considering the fact Tolkien was autistic accurate about everything when he gave interviews, I would assume he meant it.
Not saying Mordor existed in the First Age, but I am saying that Helcar did not cover the area that came to be Mordor.
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No.863
>>840
Either he was wrong about Helcar's size in the first age (as it clearly covers what would become Mordor) or he conflated it with Rhun. You can take your pick.
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No.866
>>863
Or Helcar was not in that position at all.
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No.871
Pretty much all of them are the same
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No.874
>>866
which is saying he was wrong because it contradicts his own map
you can't win
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No.903
>>874
Except that isn't a map made by Tolkien.
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No.921
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No.928
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No.929
>>928
I was under the impression that the map displaying Helcar where Mordor theoretically should be is from the Atlas of Middle Earth originally, so now drawn from Tolkien's notes.
Mind you, this is all just autism. It's not really required that such things be absolute facts. Myths are built on contradiction at times.
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No.934
>>929
the third map here: >>224
the diagrams here: >>223
and the two maps here: >>222
are from atlas of middle earth. the simple sketch of Arda here >>822 and all of the images here: >>928 are from Tolkien's original notes. The third map represents the time after the fall of the Two Lamps but before the War for the Sake of the Elves (the fall of Utumno), which created the first age beleriand coast line, the Great Gulf, Harad, and the Dark Land.
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No.1231
Posting to revive the thread.
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