Maps are a major part of the modern fantasy genre, and that is due in large part to the precedent set by The Lord of the Rings. J. R. R. Tolkien's novel included multiple maps within its pages, and ...

Karen Wynn Fonstad was a cartographer who exhaustively mapped J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, the setting of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.” She used a grid system to index locations without ...

Reading and studying Lord Of The Rings is one thing. Mapping it is another. Thankfully, someone did it and made the geographical wanderings of the Fellowship of the Ring a little easier to follow.