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A Map of Middle-Earth, Annotated by J.R.R. Tolkien
One literary map to rule them all slipped out of an old edition of The Lord of the Rings.
The time has come for the dominion of maps, for an incredible rendering of Middle-earth, covered in annotations by J.R.R. Tolkien, has been discovered.
The map could have easily been lost forever, having slipped out of an old edition of The Lord of the Rings belonging to the late famed illustrator Pauline Baynes. Baynes had been using the map to work on her own full-color poster edition of Middle-earth for Tolkien, who in turn, gave her precise and copious notes on the same document. The Guardian reports: