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. A definitive guide to the peoples, lands, journeys, and their histories. Synopsis: This newly revised edition includes all the light shed by Christopher Tolkien 's research in The History of Middle-Earth, including the forthcoming 1992 volume, Sauron Defeated.
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