A map of Middle-earth by Pauline Baynes, JRR & CJR Tolkien. 73x50cm. 1970
SKU: P-9-000629
'A Map of Middle-Earth'
Baynes had been commissioned to illustrate Tolkien's 1948 work Farmer Giles of Ham. Tolkien was so pleased with her work that he wrote to her expressing the wish that she would illustrate his then incipient Lord of the Rings works. Two decades later, Allen & Unwin commissioned Baynes to paint a map of his Middle-earth. Tolkien supplied her with copies of the charts that he and his son Christopher had made in the course of writing The Lord of the Rings. With the assistance of British Army cartographers, Baynes created the coloured map that Allen & Unwin published as a poster in 1970, embellished with a header and footer showing some of Tolkien's characters, and with vignettes of some of his stories' locations. Tolkien wrote that her conceptions of the Teeth of Mordor, the Argonath, Barad-dûr and, especially, Minas Morgul were very similar to his own, though he was less happy with her images of his heroes and their enemies. According to Baynes, Tolkien's wife Edith remarked on the poster's painting of a spider in a way which gave Baynes the impression that she had not read her husband's work.
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Size 51 x 73 cm | 20.0 x 28.5 inches
Date Published: First Trade Printing 1970
Type: Vintage poster map of the fantasy world described in Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" legendarium
Author: Baynes, Pauline & Tolkien, JRR & CJR
Publication: Lord of the Rings
Condition: Good |
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