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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  pixxiefish | Mar 17, 2009 |  Valiant attempt to draw maps of Middle Earth, but I prefer Tolkien's. (  ) adb42 | May 24, 2008 | I was jaw-droppingly amazed when I found this book... this book, I blame on my passion for atlases ever since. To suddenly have maps to the stories that I had been devouring for years was a jackpot for me. My first copy of this book, purchase when it was in hard cover, literally fell apart on me. The binding broke and the pages all fell out - mostly due to my excessive use of the book. it wasn't until I was much older, in my late 20's when I found the soft cover book and I was so happy. I keep this book among the collection of real atlases that I have to this day. I have selected the cover of the original book, published in 1981, that I lovingly destroyed in honor of what this book has meant to me! (  ) Cygnus555 | Mar 25, 2008 | This book was a must-have for a map and atlas lover me. I only bought it about half way into the first LotR book and started over, just so I could follow Frodo's journey on the maps. A really nice addition to the trilogy for people who like to have a better picture of the fellows journeys. ( ) Thalia | Apr 28, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
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Based on clear and detailed descriptions given in the text and on the original maps that appear The Lord of the Rings, as well as Tolkien's own paintings and drawings of the landscape and features of Middle-earth, this book clearly shows Frodo's route, together with the paths taken by other principal characters. The maps provide enough detail to help the reader envisage the country through which the narrative moves, and each one also has extensive notes about the journey.
Having loved the volumes of The Lord of the Rings since they first appeared, Barbara Strachey wanted fuller and more detailed maps to go with them. Though not a professional cartographer or artist, she finally decided to create them herself. For nearly 20 years her efforts have provided readers of The Lord of the Rings with a new and more vivid idea of Middle-earth and her book remains an essential Tolkien's great masterpiece.
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I love books.
I love maps.
I love the Lord of the Rings.
Therefore, it logically follows that were there a book of maps based on the travels in the Lord of the Rings, I would love that, too. Journeys of Frodo, happily, proves this hypothesis.
In this marvelous gem of an atlas, what Strachan has done is gone through all of J.R.R. Tolkien's writings related to the Lord of the Rings, and matched up descriptions to detailed maps. Tolkien was largely consistent in his descriptions, but he occasionally gave conflicting evidence, and in those cases, Strachan has done her best to reconcile differing accounts. While you won't find a story, per se, in the pages of this book, it is a lovely complement to anyone who wishes to have a deeper, more detailed understanding of Middle-Earth and the travels of the Fellowship.