{"id":1806482,"date":"2022-03-23T08:33:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T12:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1806482"},"modified":"2022-03-23T08:33:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T12:33:42","slug":"the-tolkien-estates-new-website-includes-manuscript-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/03\/the-tolkien-estates-new-website-includes-manuscript-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tolkien Estate’s New Website Includes Manuscript Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tolkien Estate now has a website<\/a>, which among other things includes J.\u00a0R.\u00a0R.\u00a0Tolkien\u2019s own paintings, illustrations\u2014and maps<\/a>. But the maps aren\u2019t from the published editions of The Lord of the Rings<\/em> and The Silmarillion<\/em>: those were drawn by his son Christopher<\/a>. These are Tolkien\u2019s own maps, drawn during the writing process. We see rough sketches of Arda, originals of the Hobbit<\/em> maps, and the maps of Middle-earth that grew and changed as he wrote The Lord of the Rings<\/em>. [Kottke<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Tolkien Estate now has a website, which among other things includes J.\u00a0R.\u00a0R.\u00a0Tolkien\u2019s own paintings, illustrations\u2014and maps. But the maps aren\u2019t from the published editions of The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion: those… 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":[4],"tags":[31,486,397],"class_list":["post-1806482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-maps-and-literature","tag-fantasy-maps","tag-middle-earth","tag-tolkien","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1786276,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/09\/maps-middle-earth-style-by-hand-and-by-arcgis\/","url_meta":{"origin":1806482,"position":0},"title":"Maps Middle-earth Style: By Hand and by ArcGIS","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"17 September 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"Dan Bell's career drawing maps of real-world places in the style of maps of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth continues apace; a recent piece, a map of San Francisco, got written up in the San Francisco Chronicle, and his website is full of other recent works. 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My latest piece for Tor.com, \u201cCelebrating Christopher Tolkien\u2019s Cartographic Legacy,\u201d went live at Tor.com this morning. It looks at the collaborative process between J. R. R. 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