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757: 778:– constructed a "fully expressed moral geography", from the hobbits' home in the Northwest, evil in the East, and "imperial sophistication and decadence" in the South. Magoun explains that Gondor is both virtuous, being West, and has problems, being South; Mordor in the Southeast is hellish, while Harad in the extreme South "regresses into hot savagery". Steve Walker similarly speaks of "Tolkien's moral geography", naming the North "barbaric", South "the region of decadence", East "danger" but also the "locale of adventure", West "safety" (and uttermost West "ultimate safety"), North-West "specifically English insularity" where hobbits of the Shire live "in provincial satisfaction". 324: 833: 197: 845: 4531: 718:. Danielson suggests that this has assisted the tendency among Tolkien's fans to treat his maps as "geographical fact". He calls Fonstad's atlas "magisterial", and comments that like Tolkien, Fonstad worked from the assumption that the maps, like the texts, "are objective facts" which the cartographer must fully reconcile. He gives as an instance the work that she did to make the journey of Thorin's company in 620: 531:. The River Anduin passes the hills of Emyn Muil and the enormous rock statues of the Argonath and flows through the dangerous rapids of Sarn Gebir and over the Falls of Rauros into Gondor. Gondor's border with Rohan is the Ered Nimrais, the White Mountains, which run east–west from the sea to a point near the Anduin; at that point is Gondor's capital city, 736:
are Rohan and Gondor on the side of the Free Peoples, and Mordor and its allies Harad (Southrons) and Rhûn (Easterlings) on the side of the Dark Lord. Gondor, once extremely powerful, is by that time much reduced in its reach, and has lost control of Ithilien (bordering Mordor) and South Gondor
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consistent with the map, something that Tolkien found himself unable to do. Danielson writes that in addition, Fonstad created "the most comprehensive set" of thematic maps of Middle-earth, presenting geographic data including political boundaries, climate, population density, and the routes of
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have traced many features of Middle-earth to literary sources or real-world places. Some places in Middle-earth can be more or less firmly associated with a single place in the real world, while other locations have had two or more real-world origins proposed for them. The sources are diverse,
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Other scholars such as Walter Scheps and Isabel G. MacCaffrey have noted Middle-earth's "spatial cum moral dimensions", though not identically with Magoun's interpretation. In their view, North and West are generally good, South and East evil. That places the Shire and the elves'
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At the end of the Third Age, much of the northwest of Middle-earth is wild, with traces here and there of ruined cities and fortresses from earlier civilisations among the mountains, rivers, forests, hills, plains and marshes. The major nations that appear in
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occupied a large part of the region. After its collapse, much of Eriador became wild; regions such as Minhiriath, on the coast south of the River Baranduin (Brandywine), were abandoned. A small part of the region was occupied by
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I wisely started with a map, and made the story fit (generally with meticulous care for distances). The other way about lands one in confusions and impossibilities, and in any case it is weary work to compose a map from a
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was across the sea, Belegaer, from Middle-earth, with NĂșmenor in between for most of the Second Age. At the end of the Second Age, NĂșmenor was destroyed and Valinor removed from
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in the Northwest as certainly good, and Mordor in the Southeast as certainly Evil; Gondor in the Southwest is in their view morally ambivalent, matching the characters of both
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In the northwest of Middle-earth, Eriador was the region between the Ered Luin and the Misty Mountains. Early in the Third Age, the northern kingdom of Arnor founded by
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destroyed NĂșmenor near the end of the Second Age, he remade Arda as a round world, and the Undying Lands were removed from Arda so that Men could not reach them. The
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and in ships capable of passing out of the sphere of the earth. Tolkien then equated Arda, consisting of both Middle-earth's planet and the heavenly Aman, with the
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Habermann, Ina; Kuhn, Nikolaus (2011). "Sustainable Fictions – Geographical, Literary and Cultural Intersections in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings".
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notes that his quest will involve misty mountains peopled with orcs and giants, while the mountains' character was partly inspired by Tolkien's travels in the
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was built in the First Age beneath the midpoint of the mountain range. The two major passes across the mountains were the High Pass or Pass of Imladris near
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Stentor Danielson, a Tolkien scholar, notes that Tolkien did not provide the same "elaborate textual history" to contextualise his maps
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on Tolkien's maps. In addition, Tolkien's rivers fail to behave like natural rivers, forming regularly-branched streams in
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Some Middle-earth placenames were based on the sound of places named in literature; thus, Beleriand was borrowed from the
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Languages, Myths and History: An Introduction to the Linguistic and Literary Background of J. R. R. Tolkien's Fiction
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25 September 1954, #156 draft to Robert Murray 4 November 1954, #227 to Mrs E. C. Ossen Drijver 5 January 1961
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Brisbois, Michael J. (2005). "Tolkien's Imaginary Nature: An Analysis of the Structure of Middle-earth".
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Larsen, Kristine (2008). Sarah Wells (ed.). "A Little Earth of His Own: Tolkien's Lunar Creation Myths".
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of Middle-earth. Tolkien scholars have traced many features of Middle-earth to literary sources such as
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writes that Gondor recalls "a kind of decaying Byzantium"; its piratical enemy Umbar like the seagoing
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Imagemap with clickable links of Tolkien's moral geography of Middle-earth, according to John Magoun
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or Wilderland to the east of those mountains, and return home to the Shire. The cartographer
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Newman, J. K. (2005). "J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Lord of the Rings': A Classical Perspective".
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East of the Misty Mountains, Anduin, the Great River, flows southwards, with the forest of
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With his "Southrons" from Harad, Tolkien had – in the view of John Magoun, writing in the
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to its east. On its west bank opposite the southern end of Mirkwood is the Elvish land of
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Fonstad created "the most comprehensive set" of thematic maps of Middle-earth, such as
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To the east of Rhovanion and to the north of Mordor lies the Sea of Rhûn, home to the
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suggested that the political and strategic situations of Gondor and Mordor in the
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Scheps, Walter (1975). "The Interlace Structure of 'The Lord of the Rings'". In
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Just to the South of both Fangorn and Isengard is the wide grassy land of the
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and then across the Misty Mountains, involve further travels in the lands of
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has created detailed thematic maps for Tolkien's major Middle-earth books,
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built the ships in which the Elves departed from Middle-earth to Valinor.
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The Road to Middle-Earth: How J. R. R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology
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The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Places that Inspired Middle-earth
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In the Ring Goes Ever on: Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005 Conference
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appear first in the Eastfarthing, while the once good but corrupted
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take place in the north-west of the continent of Middle-earth. Both
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in the West, opposed to peoples under the control of the Dark Lord
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were forged. At the Grey Havens (Mithlond), on the Gulf of Lune,
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begin in the Shire, travel east through the wilds of Eriador to
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Geography of J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth
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The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary
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of medieval romance. Tolkien tried out many invented names
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The Power of Tolkien's Prose: Middle-Earth's Magical Style
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for an early version of Beleriand. 1868 illustration by
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Tolkien's Middle-earth was part of his created world of
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The extreme west of Middle-earth in the First Age was
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of the late Middle Ages. NĂșmenor echoes the mythical
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The Misty Mountains were thrown up by the Dark Lord
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"East, The". In 1296:, pp. 324–328 "The Lost Straight Road". 703:, notes that the atlas provides historical, 538:Across the river to the East is the land of 159:as analogues of places in Middle-earth. The 101:is described as having free peoples, namely 4230:The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion 1720: 838:influences on the geography of Middle-earth 4355: 4341: 2559: 2545: 1820: 1764: 1213:, #131 to Milton Waldman c. 1951, #154 to 958:About the origins of his storytelling and 810:), in a tradition which he traces back to 348:with clickable links of the north-west of 76:, was drowned in the War of Wrath. In the 4362: 2234: 2125:. In Driver, Martha W.; Ray, Sid (eds.). 2088: 1981: 1918: 1863: 1499: 1258: 1226: 1210: 1198: 1186: 1108: 1102: 673:to clarify and map the two journeys – of 4265:Tolkien's Art: 'A Mythology for England' 4216:The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide 4142:Things named after Tolkien and his works 2353: 2068:. Oxford University Press. p. 170. 2041:. 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Index

Weathertop
geography
J. R. R. Tolkien
Middle-earth
Arda
the physical world
EĂ€
Aman
Valar
First Age
Beleriand
Second Age
NĂșmenor
Belegaer
The Lord of the Rings
Third Age
Men
Hobbits
Elves
Dwarves
Sauron
implying a moral geography
Beowulf
Poetic Edda
MyrkviĂ°r
Venice
Rome
Constantinople
Byzantium
cartographer

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