Flaws in the Middle Earth map - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

mhagain · 02-13-2007, 12:47 PM

I think CT can tend to be a little bit too self-critical regarding his own input into the whole Middle-Earth thing. It's well documented, but easy enough to forget, that his status at one point was the Principal Collaborator (a glance at any of the letters from the early 1940s will reveal this), and that his work helped shape the Middle-Earth we know and love. It's easy enough to see things that one would have done differently or better with hindsight, but sure ain't we all guilty of that to an extent?

goldfinger · 02-14-2007, 06:29 PM

The map of of Middle Earth was redrawn. It says so on the last page of the appendices just before the maps.

CSteefel · 02-14-2007, 08:48 PM

Does anybody have any idea which flaws these are??

Elmo · 02-15-2007, 08:50 AM

In the UT that he had correct the minor flaws for the map in that book but he could not change the main ones and also JRR used to point out the major flaws to him quite a lot but the professor still used the map as a basis for his tales.

02-13-2007, 12:47 PM	#1
mhagain Wight Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: The best seat in the Golden Perch Posts: 219	I think CT can tend to be a little bit too self-critical regarding his own input into the whole Middle-Earth thing. It's well documented, but easy enough to forget, that his status at one point was the Principal Collaborator (a glance at any of the letters from the early 1940s will reveal this), and that his work helped shape the Middle-Earth we know and love. It's easy enough to see things that one would have done differently or better with hindsight, but sure ain't we all guilty of that to an extent? __________________ Then one appeared among us, in our own form visible, but greater and more beautiful; and he said that he had come out of pity.

02-14-2007, 08:48 PM	#3
CSteefel Wight Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 204	Does anybody have any idea which flaws these are?? __________________ `These are indeed strange days,' he muttered. `Dreams and legends spring to life out of the grass.'

02-15-2007, 08:50 AM	#4
Elmo Pittodrie Poltergeist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: trying to find that warm and winding lane again Posts: 633	In the UT that he had correct the minor flaws for the map in that book but he could not change the main ones and also JRR used to point out the major flaws to him quite a lot but the professor still used the map as a basis for his tales. __________________ As Beren looked into her eyes within the shadows of her hair, The trembling starlight of the skies he saw there mirrored shimmering.

02-14-2007, 06:29 PM	#2
goldfinger Haunting Spirit Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: KC, Missouri Posts: 60	The map of of Middle Earth was redrawn. It says so on the last page of the appendices just before the maps.