Interestingly!, while it doesn't say anything about the show as a whole, it's pretty clear that they got a total geek to make the maps. I've noticed that the pre- and post-Downfall maps were not only both hand-drawn, but
completely hand-drawn; check out the label for 'Nenuial' for proof that they redid all the labels. That's
not the easiest approach to take, and says that somebody cared about these maps they were making.
The other proof that they cared is in all the details the added to the Second Age map, a map which Tolkien never drew. It's not only the forests - the whole coastline has changed. All along the coast of Lindon and what will one day be Gondor, the coast extends a little further out, and there are hills and forests that would be washed away in the Downfall.
They also filled in the East Bight in Mirkwood, of course - but look to the south of it. That's what we call the Brown Lands, but back in the Second Age it was the home of the Entwives. I'm not sure I agree with depicting it as a tree-filled valley, as they seem to have done - but the fact that they
put it in says a fair bit. As does the de-deltification of Anduin and the expansion of Tolfalas.
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Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin
Possibly the cartographer takes the position that Elves called the place Moria beginning with the destruction of Hollin.
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Well, Celebrimbor wrote 'Moria' on their doors...
Also, given that the usual Sindarin name for the dwarves, 'naugrim', literally means 'stunted ones', it's not hard to imagine them using 'Moria' when not talking to dwarves. "Oh, yeah, the shorties from the Black Pit - um, sorry, I mean the Longbeards of the Mansion of the Dwarves..."
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