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''General Map of Middle-earth'' is the original, unnamed | ''General Map of Middle-earth'' is the original, unnamed map of [[Middle-earth]] that [[Christopher Tolkien]] made in late [[1953]] for the first edition of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''.<ref name=RC>{{HM|RC}}, "The Maps of ''The Lord of the Rings''", pp. lv-lxvii</ref><ref>{{L|187}}, p. 247</ref> It was later replaced by [[Christopher Tolkien]]’s redrawing, [[The West of Middle-earth at the End of the Third Age]] that first appeared in the ''[[Unfinished Tales]]'' and since [[2005]] in the [[HarperCollins]] editions of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. | ||
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General Map of Middle-earth is the original, unnamed map of Middle-earth that Christopher Tolkien made in late 1953 for the first edition of The Lord of the Rings.[1][2] It was later replaced by Christopher Tolkien’s redrawing, The West of Middle-earth at the End of the Third Age that first appeared in the Unfinished Tales and since 2005 in the HarperCollins editions of The Lord of the Rings.
References
- ↑ Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (eds), The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, "The Maps of The Lord of the Rings", pp. lv-lxvii
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien; Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien (eds.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 187, (undated, written April 1956), p. 247