{"id":6145,"date":"2019-10-03T20:38:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T18:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=6145"},"modified":"2019-10-03T20:38:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T18:38:47","slug":"tolkiens-middle-earth-mapped-to-europe-the-k2p-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2019\/10\/03\/tolkiens-middle-earth-mapped-to-europe-the-k2p-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien\u2019s Middle Earth mapped to Europe | The k2p blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here he superimposes Middle Earth onto a Europe at a time when sea levels (in my estimation) were more than 100m lower than they are today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source: Tolkien\u2019s Middle Earth mapped to Europe | The k2p blog<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Tolkien\u2019s Middle Earth mapped to\u00a0Europe<\/h2>\n
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Some 45 years ago when I first read Tolkien, I recall making (or trying to make) a relief map of Middle Earth on cardboard with crumpled paper and glue and paint and plasticene for the relief features. I never had the patience to get it quite finsished and it was too large to survive my many moves as a student. But maps and cartography have fascinated ever since.<\/p>\n

I have just come across this map of Middle Earth which \u2013 I think \u2013 is about 10 years old.\u00a0Peter Bird<\/a><\/strong> is Professor Emeritus at the\u00a0Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences of UCLA and this map of Tolkien\u2019s Middle Earth is from his personal page<\/strong><\/a>. Here he superimposes Middle Earth onto a Europe at a time when sea levels (in my estimation) were more than 100m lower than they are today. All very fanciful of course, but interesting and for me very nostalgic.<\/p>\n

From Frank Jacobs at strange maps<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

But, as Tolkien states in the prologue to \u2018The Lord of the Rings\u2019, it would be fruitless to look for geographical correspondences, as \u201cThose days, the Third Age of Middle-earth, are now long past, and the shape of all lands has been changed\u2026\u201d And yet, that\u2019s exactly what Peter Bird attempts with the map here shown. Bird, a professor of\u00a0Geophysics and Geology\u00a0at UCLA, has overlapped the map of Middle-earth with one of Europe, which leads to following locations:<\/p>\n