The Years of the Lamps and the Years of the Trees
Source: Wikipedia
Andrey Maximov: Illuin and Ormal — Ted Nasmith: Illuin
Karen Wynn Fonstad: The Spring of Arda — from Almaren and the Great Lake in the Time of the Lamps to Middle-earth and Valinor in the Years of the Trees.
Aman and Valinor
Left:source Wikipedia — right: map by Karen Wynn Fonstad (excerpt)
Valinor with the Two Trees, Telperion and Laurelin
(Art by MrSvein872)
Ted Nasmith: Tirion
The First Age
Karen Wynn Fonstad: Eä (the universe created by Eru Ilúvatar) and Arda after the Battle of the Powers
Karen Wynn Fonstad: Arda with Aman and Middle-earth
Stefan Meisl: Helcaraxë
The topography of Beleriand and the Northern Lands
(Art by John Howe)
Karen Wynn Fonstad: Beleriand and the Northern Lands
The Realms of the Ñoldor and the Sindar and their rulers
(map by Sirielle)
Karen Wynn Fonstad: Menegroth, seat of the rulers of Doriath
Karen Wynn Fonstad: Nargothrond
Karen Wynn Fonstad: Gondolin
Alan Lee: Gondolin
Middle-earth before and after the War of Wrath
(Source)
The Second Age
Karen Wynn Fonstad: Arda with Valinor, Númenor and Middle-earth
Karen Wynn Fonstad: Númenor
Númenor: White ships from Valinor near Andúnië (art by Ted Nasmith)
— Rómenna (art by MatejCadil) — Armenelos the Golden (art by Ralph Damiani)
The Third Age
Karen Wynn Fonstad: Circles of the World before and after the change from flat to round Earth
Source: Wikipedia
Karen Wynn Fonstad: Middle-earth in the early Third Age
The topography of Middle-earth
(Source)
Karen Wynn Fonstad: The Realms in Exile
Karen Wynn Fonstad: Kingdoms of the Dúnedain
The partition of Arnor
(Source)
Karen Wynn Fonstad: The plague in Middle-earth
Gondor at the height of its powers (at the beginning of the second millennium of the Third Age)
Source: http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Gondor
Gondor in the year of the War of the Ring
Source: http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Gondor
Middle-earth in the time of the War of the Rings
Upper map by Pauline Baynes (1970); source of lower map here
Karen Wynn Fonstad: The Shire, the Old Forest, Bree, and Weathertop
The Setting of The Hobbit
(Source)
The Shire
(Source)
Hobbiton
(Source)
Karen Wynn Fonstad: Bag End and Hobbiton (before and after the War of the Ring)
Hobbiton (Bagshot Row and Bag End) as shown in the movies
Karen Wynn Fonstad: The Barrow Downs and Tom Bombadil’s Home (left) / Bree (right)
Karen Wynn Fonstad: Rivendell
Alan Lee: Rivendell
J.R.R. Tolkien: Map of Wilderland
Source: https://www.theonering.com/map-of-the-wilderland-j-r-r-tolkien
Karen Wynn Fonstad: Goblin Town and Gollum’s Lake in the Misty Mountains (left)
and the Lonely Mountain (right)
Christopher Tolkien (1954): Thrór’s Map of the Lonely Mountain
(N.B.: While most of the maps shown on this page give the four directions — North, South, West, and East — the way “our” maps do, this Dwarven map places “East” at the top. Thus, to reflect “our” perspective, this map must be imagined as turned clockwise by a 90° angle.)
(Source)
Karen Wynn Fonstad: The Misty Mountains
The hidden gate of Moria: “Speak (say) friend, and enter!”
(Left image: source)
Karen Wynn Fonstad: Moria (left) & Caras Galadon / Lothlórien (right)
Karen Wynn Fonstad: Gondor, Rohan and Isengard
Isengard and Orthanc as shown in the movies
Edoras and the Golden Hall of Meduseld as shown in the movies
Helm’s Deep and the Hornburg as shown in the movies
Karen Wynn Fonstad: Edoras and Dunharrow (left) / Helm’s Deep (right)
Argonath (as shown in the movies): Two immense statues of Isildur and his younger brother Anárion, the first two kings of Gondor, marking the northern boundary of Gondor at the entrance of Nen Hithoel on Anduin, the Great River of Middle-earth’s Second and Third Ages.
Karen Wynn Fonstad: Parth Galen, Amon Hen, Tol Brandir and Rauros at the southern end of Nen Hithoel
Karen Wynn Fonstad: Minas Tirith (left) and Henneth Annûn (right)
Minas Tirith as shown in the movies
Pelargir: Gondor’s principal sea port near the Mouths of the Anduin
(Sources here and here)
Umbar ca. TA 1650
(Source)
Near Harad as depicted in as depicted in the Middle-earth Role Playing game
(Source)
Karen Wynn Fonstad: Mordor
Karen Wynn Fonstad: Mount Doom
The Fourth Age
Karen Wynn Fonstad: Middle-earth in the Fourth Age
Alan Lee: The Grey Havens
Source: Wikimedia
From Middle-earth to Our World
Sources: here and here
(Note: Tolkien said that the Shire was to be found in the area of today’s Oxfordshire.)
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