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Goldeneye
Lorien
Dec 29 2015, 2:06am
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Is there an official map of the entirety of Arda?
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The only one I can think of is the map in A Tolkien Bestiary by David Day, but I'm not sure if that's considered canon.
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Otaku-sempai
Immortal
Dec 29 2015, 4:21am
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The closest thing to an official map of Arda (in the First Age) that I can think of is a drawing of Arda made by Tolkien that is reproduced in The Shaping of Middle-earth. Karen Wynn Fonstad did create a map based on it for her revised edition of The Atlas of Middle-earth:
Here is a second illustration that includes Arda in the Third Age:
And here is Arda for the Middle-earth Role Playing (MERP) game (before the publication of The Shaping of Middle-earth):
"Things need not to have happened to be true.
Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure
when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."
- Dream of the Endless
(This post was edited by Otaku-sempai on Dec 29 2015, 4:30am)
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Elthir
Grey Havens
Dec 29 2015, 2:07pm
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As mentioned, there are diagrams and maps made by Tolkien in the mid 1930s (The Shaping of Middle-Earth), but for example, does anyone consider the Quenta Silmarillion of the mid to later 1930s official (although maybe it depends upon the definition of official)?
I guess one could say these were Tolkien-made and thus represent JRRT's views...
... at the time 
I consider the Pauline Baynes map to be official as it was Tolkien-approved, but that isn't the whole of Arda of course.
(This post was edited by Elthir on Dec 29 2015, 2:22pm)
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