They have in addition suggested real-world places such as Venice, Rome, and Constantinople/Byzantium as analogues of places in Middle-earth. The cartographer Karen Wynn Fonstad has created detailed thematic maps for Tolkien's major Middle-earth books, The Hobbit , The Lord of the Rings , and The Silmarillion .
However, in Peter Jackson's films, Middle Earth is actually composed of dozens of incredible locations around New Zealand. While they might not be full of elves and hobbits, the natural beauty
Mordor's Mount Doom, the majestic real-life Mount Ngauruhoe, is visible if you hike the Tongariro Alpine Crossing, a popular tourist destination for Lord of the Rings fans. Rivendell, Helm's Deep
Middle-earth is the main continent of Earth (Arda) in an imaginary period of the Earth's past, ending with Tolkien's Third Age, about 6,000 years ago. Tolkien's tales of Middle-earth mostly focus on the north-west of the continent.
Created by Tolkien somewhere in the 1930s, the map shows the ‘mortal lands’ of Middle-earth, which according to Tolkien himself is part of our own Earth, but in a previous, mythical era. At
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