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Originally Posted by Huinesoron
What it doesn't do, because no map can, is put Minas Tirith at the latitude of Ravenna/Florence and Pelargir at the latitude of Troy. Tolkien's atlas misled him there.
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To be fair, I wouldn't take these latitudes
too literally - I believe they were just rough approximations in Tolkien's mind when he was writing that letter.