Which Tolkien writings would you consider Novels?

What's the last pic '-- bookmarks?

Numenor seems to have moved a bit and enlarged?

Your new version:


vs. my old version:



Which is more coherent?
Seems like both are by Karen Wynn Fonstad...
I find it quite confusing now. Which version is actually the newer one, and how are the partly serious deviations justified?

Annatar said:

Numenor seems to have moved a bit and enlarged?

Your new version:

vs. my old version:



Which is more coherent?
Seems like both are by Karen Wynn Fonstad...
I find it quite confusing now. Which version is actually the newer one, and how are the partly serious deviations justified?

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Well mine is the 1981 print so in other words the 1st Atlas that Fonstad had released.. so I would suspect that any later iteration (well really the revised editions) would be more accurate.

Edit: In fact, until i saw this picture in my book I have never seen a map of arda that looked like this.. with your observation of Numenor also catching my eye. Since I don't own revised editions.. which are revised for a reason.. and I suspect she explains her reasons quite well since her Atlas is so highly suggested (not that I am aware of any alternatives that are in print.)

That is, Tirion, Tol Eressea and Numenor etc. were moved much further north.
But why? And do the old maps still exist in parallel in the newer edition? After all, the version I posted also shows more lands in the east and south.
Here I would definitely be interested in the details of these deviations. I suppose Fonstad has at least given some explanations in the preface?

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cart said:

Well mine is the 1981 print

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To make the confusion complete: I thought your picture was from the new 2017 version?

Annatar said:

That is, Tirion, Tol Eressea and Numenor etc. were moved much further north.
But why? And do the old maps still exist in parallel in the newer edition? After all, the version I posted also shows more lands in the east and south.
Here I would definitely be interested in the details of these deviations. I suppose Fonstad has at least given some explanations in the preface?

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which do u own?

https://www.tolkienbooks.us/ot/maps/atl

this is the one i own:
also happens to be the 1st print (though i don't think there were any changes from 1st to 9th print)

after 9 prints it was revised in 1991:
Revised to reflect the newly available information from The History of Middle-earth series; typeset chiefly as for the 1981 First Edition. Includes detailed maps of Middle-earth and surrounding areas for The Silmarillion, The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit with commentary and a new foreword by Karen Wynn Fonstad.

Though perhaps your question has been answered?

@Squint-eyed Southerner they were indeed! I figured some nice tolkien vibbing bookmarks would go well with the (alot) of money I have recently spent on tolkien books. better than scraps of paper and junk mail... and a bit facnier than my old go to of post it notes.

Ah, okay, then it's the other way around. I kind of assumed you had the latest edition, but you bought the first one. I'm sorry...

I myself have probably the 1991 version.

Annatar said:

Ah, okay, then it's the other way around. I kind of assumed you had the latest edition, but you bought the first one. I'm sorry...

I myself have probably the 1991 version.

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Thats what i was figuring when u referred to mine as "new" and inferred you meant it was the 2017 print.
Honestly the only reason I even have the 1981 print is because it was the cheapest hardcover of the Atlas I could find.. the hardcovers seem to get just a few prints if they get more than 1.... and cost upwards of $120.. and I wanted it as a reference material while I was reading and thus wanted a hardcover so I could open it up to the map I wanted and not have to pin the pages down and that took me to 1981. But with all that said it is in fabulous shape for a 1st print 1st edition and as @Squint-eyed Southerner suggested I am likely to get a softcover of the newest iteration at some point, but for my purposes this will do just fine even if it is not as accurate as one might hope.

(kind of reminds me when i was in uni and i'd go cheap and get the 10th edition of some textbook when the class called for the 12th edition.. it always got the job done)