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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.
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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.