was bordered with the first illustrations of Tolkien’s characters, but was based on the fold-out map in the first volumes of the 1954 Ring trilogy, which had been drawn by Tolkien’s son ...

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien has clearly ignored the instruction ... but there is no doubt that this map is drawn from the imagination; labels include ‘orc-raids’, ‘wandering gnomes’ and a ‘dwarf-road’.

Tolkien lived most of his adult life in Oxford, where he befriended fellow author and resident CS Lewis, creator of the Narnia series The map was originally drawn by Tolkien's son Christopher for ...

Baynes worked with Tolkien to create a map for the trilogy, and notes show that the detail-loving author even went so far as to suggest flora and fauna for the land in each area. Carefully drawn ...

Hidden in an old copy of The Lord of the Rings, a U.K. rare book store has found a map of Middle-earth annotated by J.R.R. Tolkien himself. The map, found in a book given to Blackwell's Rare ...

The map itself was drawn for in 1954 by Tolkien’s son Christopher. It was included at the back of the first two volumes of The Lord of the Rings. Most of the scribbles on it are from Tolkien ...

A recently discovered map of Middle-earth annotated by JRR Tolkien reveals The Lord of the Rings author’s observation that Hobbiton is on the same latitude as Oxford, and implies that the ...

At the Bodleian Library in Oxford, meanwhile, there are 500 boxes filled with Tolkien’s letters, photographs, hand-drawn maps, watercolours, notebooks and typeset pages. As a scholar of Old and ...

The Silmarillion Tolkien Illustrated Edition, which includes over 50 sketches, hand-drawn maps, and paintings by the author himself, is on sale for only $32 (was $75). The 57% discount is one of ...

will become part of its Tolkien archive and could be exhibited to the public. The Lord of the Rings author annotated the map drawn by his son Christopher for the 1954 edition of the book.