![]() ![]() This "facing east" was more than just a language convention, it was a cartographic one too and so we can infer that the same goes for Middle-earth. Middle Earth map, movies, The Lord of the Rings, Middle-earth 5120x2880px india, nasa, map, city lights, night, earth, darkness, planet 1680x1050px the lord of the rings fantasy art maps artwork middleearth middle earth 1680x1050 Art Fantasy art HD Art 2570x1561px map illustration, John. JRR Tolkiens Lord of the Rings Trilogy takes place in Middle Earth with its rich, complex storytelling of places such as the Shire, Gondor, Rohan, Lorien. Now, this doesn't explicitly say that maps were drawn with west at the top, but "south = left, north = right" very strongly implies it!Īdditionally, there is an implied contrast (which Tolkien was probably hinting at with that "Mannish languages" remark) with medieval European maps, which customarily had east at the top (hence the use of "orient", or "east", as a verb meaning "to point towards"). They were, in the West-lands, named in this order, beginning with and facing west hyarmen and formen indeed meant left-hand region and right-hand region (the opposite to the arrangement in many Mannish languages). The Undying Lands are on the left, and Middle-earth is top centre. These letters commonly indicated the points W, S, E, N even in languages that used quite different terms. The nearest Tolkien got to making a 'full' map of Arda is a rough sketch, shown in the original form, ('Map V' in 'The Ambarkanta', The Shaping of Middle-earth, volume 4 of The History of Middle-earth) and below coloured for clarity. The names of the letters most widely known and used were… númen, hyarmen, rómen, formen=west, south, east, north…. ![]() Not always (witness the Dwarven map with east at the top), but it was evidently the usual orientation in the West-lands.
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