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Re: Show HN: An interactive map of Tolkien's Middle-earth

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Post by frasermarlow »

kilbey1 wrote: post #6

Mad respect; I've been working on building maps and it's a LOT harder than it might seem.

Honestly the hardest thing for this was getting the pins in the right place. I had Claude create a tool for me to get the location and have it correct placements. Even after a dozen 'pins' were on the map, it still had problems placing the next pin (relative to the ones it had). Claude has gotten better and honestly I had not figured out Claude in the browser when I built this.

Re: Show HN: An interactive map of Tolkien's Middle-earth

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Post by frasermarlow »

blevinstein wrote: post #13

Arda was supposed to be drastically changed after the First Age. This map is from the Second/Third Ages. Do the events from the First Age map currently into what is shown? Do some have to be excluded?

Well I included 13 Silmarillion events, but most are actually Second Age events that map perfectly fine. Three of them are First age so it's a bit fudgy. The project has no Beleriand events... they literally cannot be placed because Beleriand sank beneath the sea after the War of Wrath. Cuiviénen it tricky. The Sea of Helcar where it sat was reshaped when Morgoth's strongholds were taken out, so that is approximate. Would love to make age-appropriate (ha ha) maps, but I only had this one to work from.

Re: Show HN: An interactive map of Tolkien's Middle-earth

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Post by frasermarlow »

pants2 wrote: post #12

Would love just for fun to feed this through an image generator to make it look like satellite imagery or maybe even Google Maps.

The original map was found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/lotr/comments/18fy0ga/middleearth_m... - give it a whirl!

Re: Show HN: An interactive map of Tolkien's Middle-earth

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Post by frasermarlow »

imwally wrote: post #16

Anyone know a decent place where I can buy a giant print of this for my wall?

Good question. Check out Reddit - that is where I found the original. I understand it was made for the movies but I have not been able to locate the exact source or a place to order it from.

Re: Show HN: An interactive map of Tolkien's Middle-earth

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Post by frasermarlow »

frasermarlow wrote: post #18
imwally wrote: post #16

Anyone know a decent place where I can buy a giant print of this for my wall?

Good question. Check out Reddit - that is where I found the original. I understand it was made for the movies but I have not been able to locate the exact source or a place to order it from.

The source image is here if it helps - https://i.redd.it/r8403tg0wo5c1.jpeg.
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