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littlemanpoet · 02-23-2002, 09:55 PM

I once ran across a map which I have regrettably lost [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] that shows all the lands of Middle Earth ever imagined by Tolkien in relation to each other. In it Hildorien is a good ways east and a little to the north of the Sea of Rhun, and pretty much due east of the Iron Hills. It is large and mountainous. If my memory serves me correctly, if Hobbiton is roughly equivalent to England, Mordor is somewhere in the middle of the eastern Mediterranean, and Hildorien would therefore be not too far away from, and north of, the Himalayas. The Russian Steppes, I guess.

02-23-2002, 09:55 PM	#4
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	I once ran across a map which I have regrettably lost [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] that shows all the lands of Middle Earth ever imagined by Tolkien in relation to each other. In it Hildorien is a good ways east and a little to the north of the Sea of Rhun, and pretty much due east of the Iron Hills. It is large and mountainous. If my memory serves me correctly, if Hobbiton is roughly equivalent to England, Mordor is somewhere in the middle of the eastern Mediterranean, and Hildorien would therefore be not too far away from, and north of, the Himalayas. The Russian Steppes, I guess.