Of Beleriand and its Realms
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Distances seem to shift--for instance, it looks to me as if in the text Hithlum is closest to Angband, no, Dorthonion is, no, the Marches of Maedhros are--all depending on who the narrative happens to be praising or critizing at the time...
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Especially as in Beleriand quite a lot of the travelling is apparently done on foot.
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And travel on foot makes a difference, too. I sort-of thought horses were more common, but it doesn't seem that way to me now. (The distance betweeen the town where I spent my teenaged years and the city where I live now is pretty much the size of Beleriand. Imagining traveling that on foot or horseback makes it seem a lot larger.)
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I did find this collection of maps just now on a Google search for the Baynes maps, but I'm not sure how large or detailed they are.
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(Your icon made me laugh.)
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I have often considered running a pic of the map through rasterbator.net and covering the wall opposite my bed with the result. It would not look very nice close up, though... (A more aesthetically pleasing but much more hardcore alternative would be to somehow... trace and magnify the outlines, reproduce each individual bit on cardstock, and assemble them together on the wall. A summer project if there ever was one.)
I actually like this chapter, but only because of the map at the back. Without it I would be totally lost. (Kinda like how I once tried to read On the Road and it made NO SENSE until I grabbed a map of the US showing all the different states.)
And damn, I didn't know that Nevrast was supposed to be milder in climate... I recently wrote something where the sea there froze over. Oh well. No ice-swimming for the elves there, then.
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The map is absolutely vital. It's the only way I know where everything is, too.
Milder doesn't mean no freezing. And hey, no one can memorize everything in the Silm. :)
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