I think it's also safe to say that Middle Earth is set in 'our world' even though the geography doesn't line up exactly. Where is Scandinavia? Is that supposed to be the British Isles or Iceland up there? Likewise, is that penensula Brittany? It looks more like Denmark, but it's in the wrong place. If you tried to overlay this map from the 1100s onto a Google Earth map of Europe, I think you'd get similar discrepancies to those in the Middle Earth maps that received similar treatment: I think that actually helps the cause of those who want to reconcile Middle Earth with Europe, though if we assume a map of Middle Earth is ancient in origin, it makes 'stretching' a lot more permissable. ![]() Scale or projection-some of the conic projections used for the real world maps above are awfully hard to reconcile with those that aren't mathematically projected. Udwin wrote:boy, no one can agree on scale, can they? I firmly believe that things have to be stretched around to make the known points in the Baynes map work. boy, no one can agree on scale, can they?įor the record, as we are dealing with a mythological lens, there is NO perfect solution to this conundrum if you try to fit M-e onto a stationary map. "And though I have not attempted to relate the shape of the mountains and land-masses to what geologists may say or surmise about the nearer past."(No. "All I can say is that if it were 'history', it would be difficult to fit the lands and events (or 'cultures') into such evidence as we possess, archaeological or geological, concerning the nearer or remoter part of what is now called Europe though the Shire, for instance, is expressly stated to have been in this region." (No. City of Umbar Corsairs about that of Cyprus." (comments on the Pauline Baynes Map) Bottom of the Map 1450 miles is about the latitude of Jerusalem. Minas Tirith is Has latitude of Ravenna (goal is 900 miles east of Hobbiton more near Belgrade). ![]() So you can judge roughly climate and fauna / flora etc. The green vertical line is marked at distances of 150 miles (2 cm: acc to map.
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