Comments on: Children of Hurin

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:35:13 +0000

There are very good, and accurate maps available. There is the ‘Atlas of Middle Earth’ by Karen Wynn Fonstad. She is a certified map maker, and a lover of Tolkien’s works. It includes maps of the very first creation, all the way through the first, to fourth ages. She also includes short but detailed descriptions of the battles and other important events and demographics of each map. She even plots out the path traveled by the fellowship, and the travels of Bilbo.

By: Fwenx

Fwenx — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:45:19 +0000

don’t think there is a proper map yet, looked for it too.. but the comments are all right, though some things in the map do fit in with the stories of middle-earth and Aman. as far as I can see, nothing is wrong with the part of aman, but beleriand and the middle earth of the Lord of the Rings saga can not be drawn into one map. Almaren is positioned pretty good though, and a lot of things are OK on this map, but yeah, the beleriand-middle earth part is just plain wrong.

By: Drew

Drew — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:13:16 +0000

As well notice that Numenore looks nothing like Tolkiens map from the unfinished tales, Numenore is supposed to be shaped like a star.

By: Martijn

Martijn — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:43:35 +0000

The Children of Hurin doesn’t take place north of where the hobbit takes place. Actually it’s located west from that place. Now you thing: uhh, there is only sea there. Your totally right. The land (Beleriand) changed after the last war against Morgoth. It ripped open the land and that sunk in to the sea. More on this story is in the Silmarillion

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:24:31 +0000

That is good to know. Still, you have to admit that it is a well made map. I guess I need to keep hunting for the proper one. I’ll be sure to post it if I ever come across the right version.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:35:16 +0000

This map, which appears to have come from one of David Day’s unreliable thibngs, is quite inaccurate. Beleriand, where the First Age legends are set was located due *west* of where the Shire would be six thousand years later (by Bilbo’s time, all that region had sunk beneath the sea, save only the strip marked as “Lindon” in the Lord of the Rings map- the remnant of ancient Ossiriand.