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[[Image:General_Map_of_Middle-earth_(Photo).jpg|thumb|A photo of the fold-out map of Middle-earth as appeared in the earliest editions.]]


''General Map of Middle-earth'' is the original, unnamed map 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]]''.
''General Map of Middle-earth'' is the original, unnamed map 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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File:General Map of Middle-earth (Photo).jpg
A photo of the fold-out map of Middle-earth as appeared in the earliest editions.

General Map of Middle-earth is the original, unnamed map 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.

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