title: The Atlas of Tolkien's Middle-Earth
author:  Karen Wynn Fonstad 
description: The classic guide to the geography and history of Middle-earth by a professional cartographer and Tolkien expert. Find your way through every part of Tolkien's great creation, from Middle-earth to the undying lands of the west! This completely revised edition of Karen Wynn Fonstad's The Atlas of Middle-earth is an indispensable volume that will enchant all Tolkien fans. This is an essential guide to the geography of Middle-earth, from its founding in the Elder Days -- as recounted in The Silmarillion -- to the Third Age, re-creating the journeys of Bilbo, Frodo, and the Fellowship of the Ring. Hundreds of two-colour maps and diagrams survey the journeys, battles, castles, forests, far lands, distinctive landforms, climate, vegetation and population, all illuminating the enchanted world created in The Silmarillion, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
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  **The Atlas**
  
  
  **of Middle-earth**
  
  
  _KAREN WYNN FONSTAD_
  
  
  _Revised Edition_
  
  
  _HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON_
  
  
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  To
  
  
  Todd, Mark, and Kristi
  
  
  — (still pieless) —
  
  
  who have shared ten years of trials
  
  
  and triumphs from Middle-earth,
  
  
  and to Kit Keefe, my cheery and
  
  
  courageous friend who first
  
  
  lent me _The Lord of the Rings_
  
  
  Also by Karen Wynn Fonstad
  
  
  _The Atlas of Pern_
  
  
  _The Atlas of the Land_
  
  
  _The Atlas of the Dragonlance™ World_ _The Forgotten Realms® Atlas_
  
  
  The compass rose on the cover was modified from the heraldic device of
  Eärendil the Mariner, a design by J. R. R.
  
  
  Tolkien.
  
  
  © George Alien & Unwin (Publishers) Ltd., 1973, 1977, 1979
  
  
  The runes shown were those used on all maps in Middle-earth, regardless of