{"id":1788230,"date":"2020-01-22T09:21:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T14:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1788230"},"modified":"2020-09-25T10:55:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T14:55:50","slug":"celebrating-christopher-tolkiens-cartographic-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/01\/celebrating-christopher-tolkiens-cartographic-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Christopher Tolkien’s Cartographic Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

It turns out that I wasn\u2019t finished talking about the maps drawn by Christopher Tolkien. My latest piece for Tor.com, \u201cCelebrating Christopher Tolkien\u2019s Cartographic Legacy<\/a><\/strong>,\u201d went live at Tor.com this morning. It looks at the collaborative process between J. R. R. Tolkien and his son Christopher as father and son tried to make the narrative agree with the map, and vice versa; takes a deep dive into Christopher\u2019s mapmaking technique; and tries to assess the impact of his maps on fantasy mapmaking.<\/p>\n

Previously: Christopher Tolkien, 1924-2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It turns out that I wasn\u2019t finished talking about the maps drawn by Christopher Tolkien. My latest piece for Tor.com, \u201cCelebrating Christopher Tolkien\u2019s Cartographic Legacy,\u201d went live at Tor.com this morning. It looks at the… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1788231,"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":[4,960],"tags":[87,31,486,397,1475],"class_list":["post-1788230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maps-and-literature","category-my-stuff","tag-fantasy-map-design","tag-fantasy-maps","tag-middle-earth","tag-tolkien","tag-toujfeat","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/christopher-tolkien-header-cc.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6034,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2015\/10\/middle-earth_map-annotated-by-tolkien-discovered\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788230,"position":0},"title":"Map of Middle-earth, Annotated by Tolkien Himself, Discovered","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"25 October 2015","format":"link","excerpt":"A map of Middle-earth annotated by J. 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