Sunday, November 25, 2018
Maps on maps on maps
So I never really looked at any of the maps contained within Tolkien's works. I appreciate the fact that they exist. However, I didn't feel that they helped me understand the journey, the myth, or the history any better. But for my creative project, I've spent hours looking at them and studying them. I have found an intense appreciation for them that I never had before. They are absolutely fantastic. They are packed with intense amounts of information of which I wasn't really prepared for, they are also drawn very similarly to that of early maps of any region. With how the details are drawn out and the difference in sizes of the details. I just really intensely enjoyed studying the maps and thought I would share that with y'all.
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I enjoyed the maps, too! I spent about the first half of Fellowship being very frustrated with the maps included in my edition: there was this teeny-tiny section dedicated to the space between the Shire and Bree, and that's where most of the action takes place.
On the other hand, I was bummed out to find a way more detailed, zoomed in version of the map I wanted in my (different edition) copy of Two Towers. At that point, I had already given up on the maps a little bit. I think my relationship with the maps went up and down depending on how much time I had left to read the books before the beginning of the semester, as well as how much time and interest I had day by day.
A lot of the time this semester I have thought about going back and looking at the maps, but you know how easy it is to never get around to things. Anyway, that was disjointed but I feel it with the maps being good and bad.
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