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[[ | [[File:General Map of Middle-earth.png|thumb|The map of Middle-earth as appeared in the earliest editions.]] | ||
''General Map of Middle-earth'' is the original, unnamed<ref group=note>The name "General Map of Middle-earth" appears to be coined by [[Wayne G. Hammond|Hammond]] and [[Christina Scull|Scull]].</ref> map of [[ | ''General Map of Middle-earth'' is the original, unnamed<ref group=note>The name "General Map of Middle-earth" appears to be coined by [[Wayne G. Hammond|Hammond]] and [[Christina Scull|Scull]].</ref> map of the [[Westlands]] 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> | ||
This was the base for [[Christopher Tolkien]]’s redrawing, [[The West of Middle-earth at the End of the Third Age]] that first appeared in the ''[[Unfinished Tales]]''. Since [[2005]], the new map replaced the "General Map" in the [[HarperCollins]] editions of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. | This was the base for [[Christopher Tolkien]]’s redrawing, [[The West of Middle-earth at the End of the Third Age]] that first appeared in the ''[[Unfinished Tales]]''. Since [[2005]], the new map replaced the "General Map" in the [[HarperCollins]] editions of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. |
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General Map of Middle-earth is the original, unnamed[note 1] map of the Westlands that Christopher Tolkien made in late 1953 for the first edition of The Lord of the Rings.[1][2]
This was the base for Christopher Tolkien’s redrawing, The West of Middle-earth at the End of the Third Age that first appeared in the Unfinished Tales. Since 2005, the new map replaced the "General Map" in the HarperCollins editions of The Lord of the Rings.
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- ↑ 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