Flaws in the Middle Earth map

[davem]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

Concerning this, do you know how much correct is in this way Karen Wynn Fonstad's Atlas, if any of you have it? I think it is "revised" but I am not sure how much correct it is, and if there were not any newer clarifications which wouldn't be shown in there.

Again, CT praises the Atlas so I'm inclined to think it's correct. He also speaks very highly of Foster's Guide, so those are the ones I tend to reach for first.

Actually, I found out about (& joined) the Tolkien Society via an advert in the back of the 1978 Allen & Unwin edition of the Guide, which I still have - though now I also have the 'de-luxe' edition with the Ted Naismith illustrations as well. Looking at my shelves I note I still have a few of the Tolkien books I bought way back then - & a couple of the Calendars (1978 - The Silmarillion calendar & 1979), & of the ones I 'lost' (three volume p/b edition of LotR in a slip case & p/b Hobbit) I've managed to find replacements. Of all my copies of TH that 1976 p/b, found in a second hand bookshop in Derbyshire recently, is my most prized - that was the first Tolkien book I owned.