I’m curious why the other post I did today about Bilbo’s journey got so much more love than this one. Perhaps it’s because we see Bilbo in the other one, but this one just shows the map? I can see that. There’s a bigger emotional hook in that one.

Personally, if you look at the making-of stuff I linked to, it’s clear this is a really tremendous work of art. I’m really impressed by this one.

Here’s another picture which I believe is from the same author. This appears to be Frodo and Sam, so that means the bowl cut guy in the above picture is Frodo and Sam is the angry guy right above Grima. The two armored hobbits must be Merry and Pippin.

Hey, thanks for posting! Feel free to post any other LOTR art you have any time!

Thanks! It was a fun project. Some day I hope to go back to it and add more detail. Maybe change the timing on the early parts so that there isn’t as much dead time while Boromir is the only one travelling. I’m always working on something, so it may be a while. I never did get around to adding The Fox, which was always kind of a joke, but I felt it needed to be in there. I also just realized I never put Goldberry in there either, which is a shame. There’s always more to do.

I was listening to the Fellowship of the Ring again and realized that in Lorien they mention that orcs travelled up to Moria days earlier, so the orcs weren’t just already in Moria, they travelled there, which means I should add them to the video.

The author of the atlas seems to have a background in map making because she also made a map book for Forgotten Realms that I have. I was organizing things and was thinking about what books to get rid of when I recognized the author’s name and decided to keep it for that reason.

It has been ages since I watched that. I don’t think I appreciated it as much when I was younger since I was more familiar with The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings Rankin Bass cartoons. But, this just looks so unique and interesting that I should really re-watch it as an adult to see what it’s like. The great thing about Tolkien’s work is the wide variety of artistic interpretations. I love them all.

Thanks for posting!

Hah, the “Hanged Man” is Frodo caught in Shelob’s webbing! That artist apparently made 32 tarot cards. I think there are actually 78 cards in a tarot deck, any idea if they’re going to do the full deck?

Thanks for contributing!

Ok, I’ll update it.

Updated to to 0.19.3