Thread: Map of Beleriand

So, I was looking for a map of Beleriand to use as wallpaper, as a substitute for ye' olde Middle-Earth map. The reason being that I'm finally reading the Silmarillion and thoroughly enjoying it. While searching for it, I came across a myriad of more or less obscure maps and attempts to place Beleriand alongside the map from the Third Age. Which is of course silly considering the amount of damage and alteration done to the landmass meanwhile.

This one hurts my eyes:
http://images.wikia.com/lotr/images/...ds_(color).jpg

This is a weird thing considering what I said before, but it's a nice try and I like the style:
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/3...andmecompo.jpg

And... of course the best map - or rather, the depiction most true to Tolkien, in my opinion, was posted on this very site:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...beleriand2.jpg

Well, anyway, I was looking for an actual map of Beleriand, but none of them was to my liking (in appearance that is). So I took a plain one (the one in the actual book, by Christopher Tolkien) and made it look more rugged. Some of you may think it's too dark, but that's the way I like it, considering the content of the Silmarillion. It's not perfect, but at least I tried to make most of the place-names readable - also, to make it fit my screen, I had to include the empty space to the east, but after all there's a line where the map ends and the rest was rather unknown to the inhabitants of Beleriand in the first place I believe:


Cheers! And keep appreciating J. Ronald R. Tolkien!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...6GpisIQ#t=690s

EDIT: Mind you, the map shown on the forum is compressed. The actual size is 1600:900

Nice maps! Indeed the second map, might look a bit funny and not very ''professional'' but it still has a nice style

Originally Posted by EkErilaz

And... of course the best map - or rather, the depiction most true to Tolkien, in my opinion, was posted on this very site:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...beleriand2.jpg

I was going to post that one for you but I see that you already found it. I found it on the web a few years ago and saved it on my photobucket account.

found this one

http://7a6972656f5f74637568.killerho..._color_map.jpg

how does one post pictures?

Originally Posted by Jewl_of_the_lake

how does one post pictures?

Here is a link to a list of BBCodes: http://bbcode.org/reference.php

I was told in the past that before posting an image one should save it to one's own webpage, for example, I save images to my Photobucket account. There are many other websites like Photobucket that will provide you with a free account where you may deposit images. Then post the image from your webpage. This is considered proper Internet etiquette. You will find some websites actually block their images from being reposted elsewhere.