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Article: The Maps of Tolkien's Middle-earth.(Book Review)
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- Cartography and Geographic Information Science
- Article date:
- October 1, 2004
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The Maps of Tolkien's Middle-earth by Brian Sibley and John Howe, 80 pp., hardbound book and four folded maps in a case, all boxed, $29.95, Houghton-Mifflin, Boston, 2003 (ISBN: 0-618-39110-x); The Lord of the Rings: Weapons and Warfare by Chris Smith, 218p., paperback, $18.85, Houghton-Mifflin, Boston, 2003 (ISBN: 0-618-39100-2); and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Visual Companion by Jude Fisher, 72p., hardbound, $18.95, Houghton-Mifflin, Boston, 2003 (ISBN: 0-618-39097-9).
It wouldn't be fair to describe the hoopla surrounding the 2003 release of Peter Jackson's The Return of the King as unprecedented, but saying no more than that there was a lot ...