Show me the way to Mordor: Unique map of Middle-Earth with Tolkien's hand-written notes

Daily Mail ^ | 10/24/15 | Sophie Jane Evans

[Kartographer]

The artifact provides an amazing insight into Tolkien's mind - including his observation that Hobbiton is on the same latitude as the city of Oxford.

It also suggests that Ravenna in Italy is the inspiration behind Minas Tirith, a fictional city that became the heavily fortified capital of Gondor.

And it references Cyprus, Belgrade and Jerusalem.

[Kartographer]

Incredible: This map of Middle-Earth - covered in annotations by J.R.R. Tolkien - was discovered in an old copy of The Lord Of The Rings

[Kartographer]

You can see my interest!

[SkyPilot]

Actor John Rhys-Davies, who played Gimli in LOTR, was prophetic in his words 11 years ago.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2004/01/welsh-muslims-demand-apology-from-lord-of-the-rings-actor-john-rhys-davies>

"There is a demographic catastrophe happening in Europe that nobody wants to talk about, that we daren’t bring up because we are so cagey about not offending people racially. And rightly we should be. But there is a cultural thing as well....By 2020, 50 per cent of the children in Holland under the age of 18 will be of Muslim descent. I think that Tolkien says that some generations will be challenged. And if they do not rise to meet that challenge, they will lose their civilisation. That does have a real resonance with me.....I am for dead, white male culture. Many do not understand how precarious Western civilisation is and what a joy it is."

John Rhys-Davies, January 2004

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Europe, 2015

[Altura Ct.]

Actor John Rhys-Davies, who played Gimli in LOTR, was prophetic in his words 11 years ago.

I couldn't have said it better myself. Whites better wake the he** up!

[libertarian27]

More from Gimli (LOTR) John Rhys-Davies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhp40-Xt-3U
John Rhys-Davies says Christianity is being wiped out (w/ Adam Carolla) Moral Compass, ISIS, West
Published on Aug 13, 2015
Actor John Rhys-Davies declared “we have lost our moral compass completely” in the West due to political correctness and fear to cast judgment on Islamic extremism.
“There is an extraordinary silence in the West,” Mr. Rhys-Davies, who played the dwarf Gimli in the three “Lord of the Rings” movies, said during Adam Carolla’s podcast Monday night.
“Basically, Christianity in the Middle East and in Africa is being wiped out — I mean not just ideologically but physically, and people are being enslaved and killed because they are Christians. And your country and my country are doing nothing about it,” he said.
(some swearing, from Carolla, on this video)

[captmar-vell]

Thanks for posting the pics, nice

[MUDDOG]

Baynes, whose completed poster map of Middle-Earth was published by Allen & Unwin in 1970.

[SunkenCiv]

That’s the one that was shipping with the box set of hardcovers I got late in the 1970s. My favorite covers (FWIW) remains that early 1970s Ballantine paperback box set. Never got the giant contiguous version that was sold as a poster, wish I had four or five of those, unopened, in a closet somewhere around here.

[Kartographer]

Beside always enjoying maps one of the reasons I took up cartography is because I couldn’t find one of those big maps so long ago.