Maps, images, and vivid descriptions in full color create an enchanting reference to all the fantastical places and creatures that sprung from Tolkien's mind. This is a beautiful book, but the edition I have could do with some editing as a paragraph was repeated in it. The maps are organised first by period, with chapters on the First, Second, and Third Ages of Middle-earth. It's not quite an illustrated atlas, there are plenty of illustrations but maybe not enough of the world-building itself.

Every chapter represents an age in the world of Arda and includes a map, general chronology overview and concise texts explaining key topics, e. The texts are quite interesting on their own, but what you should really pick this book up for are the illustrations. The text is highly readable and takes the reader through the evolution and history of Tolkien's world from its creation to the Fourth Age. Through the 1980's and 1990's, Day published The Eco-Wars and The Whale Wars along with three other books on environmental activism.Right there with Narnia, Hogwarts, Westeros, Oz, Midgard, Asgard, The Continent, Azeroth, the various Star Wars planets (Tatooine, Coruscant, Naboo, Yavin IV, Endor, etc. As always stay tuned for more brewfests, beer reviews, brewery trips, hike reviews, book reviews, interviews, and more! He has subsequently travelled extensively, and lived in England, Greece, Spain and his native Canada. Packed with full page maps and illustrations of events in the annals of Middle-earth, it is the perfect companion to the bestselling A DICTIONARY OF TOLKIEN.

It is a wonderful look at the world that Tolkien created and how it evolved from the beginning (both in universe and out of universe) to where it is at the end of the Lord of the Rings. Together with Tolkien: The Illustrated Encyclopedia, these books have been translated into sixteen languages, and have sold in excess of two million copies. I get the feeling this is marketed towards people just starting to get into Tolkien and maybe have picked up the Silmarillion but have yet to dig into it, so a bunch of key terms are emphasized but essentially it is meaningless. Either Dáin must have arrived on 24 November or Bilbo must have handed over the Arkenstone late on 21 November. His Doomsday Book was a Time Magazine Book of the Year and became the basis for the 100 part animated-short TV series "Lost Animals of the 20th Century".The name "Daidelos" for the lands north of the Ered Engrin was used only on Ambarkanta Map V; in other draft material this was changed or corrected variously to "Dor-na-Dhaideloth ('Sky-roof')," "Daideloth ('High plain')," "Dor-Daidelos," "Dor-Daedeloth," and, ultimately, "Dor Daedeloth" as it appears in the published Silmarillion. This is the type of atlas that has tables, illustrations, some maps, charts and a bit of superficial half-summaries of places and events under headings. While many other authors had published works of fantasy before Tolkien, the great success of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings led directly to a popular resurgence of the genre. Ne avrei date 4 soltanto perché il libro mi è arrivato un po' ammaccato, e con un bruttissimo adesivo sul retro della copertina che una volta rimosso mi ha lasciato una simpatica "macchia" di colla appiccicaticcia in bella vista.

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Fonstad also made a bold attempt to fill the gaps by using early conceptual work, mainly from The Book of Lost Tales Part One and the Ambarkanta, combining the later known maps with the sketches used by Tolkien to provide "world maps" of Arda in its entirety and show Aman, Beleriand's position relative to Eriador, and the place of Númenor in the Sea. L'atlante della Terra-di-mezzo di Tolkien (Italian), editor Rusconi Libri, 1997, translated by Isabella Murro. In fact, it's very good, whether you're knowledgeable on the deep lore of Tolkien already, or just starting to develop an interest. The Little Lune river appears on many maps but is never labeled, because its name was first published in The Peoples of Middle-earth [10].