The Atlas of Middle Earth

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Strider" "The Sickle [The Hobbits' name for the Plough or Great Bear] was swinging bright above the shoulders of Bree-hill. The book was published in 1981, and in 1991, a revised and updated version was published, which took information from The History of Middle-earth series into account. Edoras is built at the end of the valley of Harrowdale, which lies under the great mountain Starkhorn. In their lifestyle and habits they closely resemble Men, and in particular Englishmen, except for their preference for living in holes underground. The range stretched continuously for some 900 miles (1440 kilometers) across the continent of Middle-earth.

In careful geographical terms, Middle-earth is a continent on Arda, excluding regions such as Aman and the isle of Númenor. Tolkien's most widely read works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, are set entirely in Middle-earth. In addition, Tolkien's rivers fail to behave like natural rivers, forming regularly-branched streams in drainage basins demarcated by high ground. Newman compares the adventurous quest to Mordor to "the perpetual temptation felt in the West 'to hold the gorgeous East in fee'" (citing Wordsworth on Venice), in a tradition which he traces back to Herodotus and to the myth of the Golden Fleece.Acks comments that no natural process creates right-angle junctions in mountain ranges, such as are seen around Mordor and at both ends of the Misty Mountains on Tolkien's maps. Middle-earth", Endor in Quenya ( Ennor in Sindarin), and in The Book of Lost Tales the Great Lands, are names used for the habitable parts of Arda after the final ruin of Beleriand, east across the Belegaer from Aman. And high in the north as a challenge to Melkor she set the crown of seven mighty stars to swing, Valacirca, the Sickle of the Valar. Helm’s Deep, named for Helm Hammerhand, was a fortified gorge in the White Mountains located below the Thrihyrne.

Middle-earth is the human-inhabited world, that is, the central continent of the Earth, in Tolkien's imagined mythological past. The city was protected only by a high wall of timber, and a one-way road allowed access to the city. There are way more Ages mentioned by Tolkien but most of them are having very less data to show like 'Years of the Trees' or the 'Forth Age'.The first Kinslaying thus ensued; Fëanor and many of his followers attacked the Teleri and stole their ships. By the end of the Third Age, its main inhabitants were Hobbits of the Shire and Men of the surrounding lands. Although their origins and ancient history are not known, Tolkien implied that they settled in the Vales of Anduin early in the Third Age, but after a thousand years the Hobbits began migrating west over the Misty Mountains into Eriador.

The land of Rohan extended from the fords of the river Isen in the west, up to the shores of the river Anduin in the east.The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, both set in Middle-earth, have been the subject of a variety of film adaptations. The Fëanorians destroyed Doriath and killed Dior in the Second Kinslaying, but Dior's young daughter Elwing escaped with the jewel. Hence, before the end of the Second Age, the transition from "flat earth" to "round earth" had been completed. He persuaded Elven smiths in Eregion to create Rings of Power, and secretly forged the One Ring to control the other rings.

The two major passes across the mountains were the High Pass or Pass of Imladris near Rivendell, with a higher and a lower route, [T 5] [T 6] and the all-year Redhorn Pass further south near Moria. Tolkien insisted that maps be included in the book for the benefit of readers, despite the expense involved. This book has completely integrated all of the indices from the previous twelve volumes into one large index. Karen Wynn Fonstad drew from these maps to develop detailed, but non-canonical, "whole world maps" reflecting a world consistent with the historical ages depicted in The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien's Middle-earth is peopled not only by Men, but by Elves, Dwarves, Ents, and Hobbits, and by monsters including Dragons, Trolls, and Orcs.He states that it is "my own mother-earth for place", but in an imaginary past time, not some other planet. Arda Maps is created to offer high-detailed maps about the most important ages of Middle-earth for free. Another explanation is that many places shifted location, the Misty Mountains moving North to Scandinavia, the White Mountains rotating to become the Alps and the mountains of the west Balkans, Near Harad moving south and west to become the Sahara, Eriador flooding to become northern France and the British Isles, and so on.