[Kartographer]

Incredible: This map of Middle-Earth - covered in annotations by J.R.R. Tolkien - was discovered in an old copy of The Lord Of The Rings

[Kartographer]

You can see my interest!

[SkyPilot]

Actor John Rhys-Davies, who played Gimli in LOTR, was prophetic in his words 11 years ago.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2004/01/welsh-muslims-demand-apology-from-lord-of-the-rings-actor-john-rhys-davies>

"There is a demographic catastrophe happening in Europe that nobody wants to talk about, that we daren’t bring up because we are so cagey about not offending people racially. And rightly we should be. But there is a cultural thing as well....By 2020, 50 per cent of the children in Holland under the age of 18 will be of Muslim descent. I think that Tolkien says that some generations will be challenged. And if they do not rise to meet that challenge, they will lose their civilisation. That does have a real resonance with me.....I am for dead, white male culture. Many do not understand how precarious Western civilisation is and what a joy it is."

John Rhys-Davies, January 2004

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Europe, 2015

[captmar-vell]

Thanks for posting the pics, nice

[MUDDOG]

Baynes, whose completed poster map of Middle-Earth was published by Allen & Unwin in 1970.

[SunkenCiv]

That’s the one that was shipping with the box set of hardcovers I got late in the 1970s. My favorite covers (FWIW) remains that early 1970s Ballantine paperback box set. Never got the giant contiguous version that was sold as a poster, wish I had four or five of those, unopened, in a closet somewhere around here.