dreigoldenehaare:awildellethappears:dagothar:futurist-foresight:A look at what Europe looked like. N
dreigoldenehaare:awildellethappears:dagothar:futurist-foresight:A look at what Europe looked like. Not really future related, but what if all that land could be reclaimed?[Editor: On an aside, this blog has been rather quite over the last 2 days while I have been writing my Dutch State exam.]nouswork:What’s better than old maps? Maps of really old places that don’t exist any more!There was Beleriand.I know that was a throwaway remark of sorts, but according to wikipedia, studies about the flora of the Dogger Bank were discussed in 1913, archaeological finds in a book published in 1915. I haven’t been able to find out if there were maps of the area at that time, but Tolkien’s first Beleriand maps (already looking remarkably like the finished version) were drawn on examination paper from the University of Leeds (HoMe 4, The First Silmarillion Map), which would date them between 1920 and 1924/5 when Tolkien returned to Oxford. And, well, looking at the shape of the landmass, and the fact that if you roughly equate the coastlines and put the Firth of Losgar at the Norwegian Trench, Doriath ends up partly in or near the English Midlands (although in the narrative it’s strongly associated with France,)… it fits scarily well. Disparities… I’ll chalk those up to the War of Wrath. :PBye guys, looks like I’m resurrecting my kindergarten ambition to run away to the North Pole in search of “fictional" characters -- source link
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