I am a big fan of the beautiful map made by Tolkien for The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. So when I looked online for a map I stumbled upon a huge and amazing hand-drawn version made by Adam Savage (the host of Mythbusters). He wrote that he used the time he had on long flights to draw the map for himself, and as he’s an awesome person he shared it and said that it can be shared with anyone wanting it. To give you an idea of how detailed his map is, click on the cropped sample above. And he made colour, black and white and sepia versions of it. I have converted his TIFF files to .jpg to make them easier to handle, and you can get all three from me here (not all at once). I also happen to have a small book called There and Back again: The map of Tolkien’s Hobbit, which is a nice book telling how the map was made, and then it has a story about the places in the Hobbit.
This map also has a dragon on it. There’s a saying that old maps used to have here be dragons written on it where there could be dangerous creatures. I have seen strange sea creatures drawn on maps, but the Middle Earth map is the only one where I have seen an actual dragon. More about that here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_be_dragons.
Hello, the link don’t work anymore.
The map is beautiful (sepia,…); Could you update the link pls
thank you