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CuriousG
Gondolin
Feb 10 2025, 6:19pm
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Geography lovers: check out ArdaCrafts' Middle-earth maps
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I have no connection to ArdaCraft, just stumbled on it today in Reddit, where they posted a watershed map for MEarth. Then they had a link on YouTube to their presentation to the Tolkien Society at Oxford, which I confess I sped through, but I liked the biome map too.
On Reddit they're getting the usual knee-jerk reactions: "you're wrong!" They pointed out they've worked on this for 10 years, so it wasn't some teenager's weekend whim that might be sloppy.
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GreenHillFox
Nevrast
Feb 11 2025, 5:12pm
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Interesting, so ... what next ?
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Thank you very much for sharing this, CuriousG! I very much enjoyed descovering this!
As regards the presentation, I was quite impressed by the comparison with highly-regarded game maps (10:28).
Also interesting was that picture as example of building history through the ages: various layers of old (15:54).
I wonder if their modeling work is accessible to the public, or at which conditions, if at all?
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CuriousG
Gondolin
Feb 13 2025, 12:09am
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Maps, my precious, they have maps
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Glad you enjoyed them too. I've now listened to the whole presentation, and along with you, I was impressed at the scale and the detail. The scale came out with the game map comparison (I played Skyrim, and wow, was that map dwarfed by M-earth), and the detail (such as the layers of architecture over the centuries in Minas Tirith, which is true of Rome and Istanbul). I wish Minecraft had more vibrant colors rather than that faded, washed-out look, but that's minor.
They list their website in the PPT slides as https://www.ardacraft.me (the "me" domain name is cute), and they have contact info there via email and Discord, if anyone in interested.
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elentari3018
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Mar 20 2025, 4:12am
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"By Elbereth and Luthien the fair, you shall have neither the Ring nor me!" ~Frodo
"And then Gandalf arose and bid all men rise, and they rose, and he said: 'Here is a last hail ere the feast endeth. Last but not least. For I name now those who shall not be forgotten and without whose valour nought else that was done would have availed; and I name before you all Frodo of the Shire and Samwise his servant. And the bards and the minstrels should give them new names: Bronwe athan Harthad and Harthad Uluithiad , Endurance beyond Hope and Hope Unquenchable.." ~Gandalf, The End of the Third Age , from The History of Middle Earth series
"He knew now why Beregond spoke his name with love. He was a captain that men would follow, that he would follow, even under the shadow of the black wings."- Siege of Gondor, RotK
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