{"id":1784840,"date":"2018-01-24T09:49:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T14:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1784840"},"modified":"2018-01-24T09:49:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T14:49:25","slug":"dan-bells-tolkien-style-maps-of-the-lake-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/01\/dan-bells-tolkien-style-maps-of-the-lake-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Bell’s ‘Tolkien-Style’ Maps of the Lake District"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dan Bell, “The Lake District National Park.” Gicl\u00e9e print.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Maps of real places done up in the style of fantasy maps are a thing, as those who have been following along will know by now. I’m planning a dedicated page on the subject in the Fantasy Maps<\/a> section. That page will have to include Dan Bell’s maps of the Lake District<\/a>\u2014maps, he says, “that resemble the iconic style of J. R. R. Tolkien.” His maps have suddenly got a bit of media attention, which is atypical for this sort of project: BBC News<\/a>, The Westmoreland Gazette<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0They resemble more the maps done for the\u00a0Lord of the Rings<\/em> movies than the maps created by Christopher Tolkien or Pauline Baynes: one tell is the triple-dot diacritic above the\u00a0a<\/em>, which is used in the movie maps and comes from Tolkien’s Elvish script. Bell, a 25-year-old “ordinary guy” from the Lake District,\u00a0is selling prints of the maps online<\/a>. [Kenneth Field<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maps of real places done up in the style of fantasy maps are a thing, as those who have been following along will know by now. I’m planning a dedicated page on the subject in… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[1137,87,31,1136,71],"class_list":["post-1784840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-art","tag-cumbria","tag-fantasy-map-design","tag-fantasy-maps","tag-lake-district","tag-uk","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1789262,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/09\/dan-bell-the-ordnance-survey-and-fantasy-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1784840,"position":0},"title":"Dan Bell, the Ordnance Survey, and Fantasy Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"10 September 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"Dan Bell, whose \u201cTolkien-inspired\u201d maps of real-world places have been a thing for a while now, makes an appearance on the Ordnance Survey\u2019s blog to demonstrate\u00a0how he uses OS maps in his creative process. 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