squire
Half-elven
Feb 20 2007, 5:55pm
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It's quite interesting and well worth owning
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If you like to think of LotR in geographical terms. I prefer her cartographical style to Fonstad, though Fonstad's documentation of her research is worth the price of her book. However, you have to take Strachey with a grain of salt: anything that she puts in (like contour lines, woods, etc.) that aren't from the book are her inventions, to give the maps a realistic look. Her guesses and additions are well-thought-out and consistent with what is written, mostly, but they are by no means authorized by Tolkien. If you compare her contour lines (for instance) with real-world examples, though, you'll find that she portrays a very simplified landscape indeed, much the way Tolkien did. That looks like a new printing. Is this a new edition, just out? I may have to get it myself. (Who did the cover art?)
squire online: RR Discussions: The Valaquenta, A Shortcut to Mushrooms, and Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit Footeramas: The 3rd TORn Reading Room LotR Discussion; and "Tolkien would have LOVED it!" squiretalk introduces the J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: A Reader's Diary
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