{"id":128437,"date":"2015-10-25T21:07:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T03:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/25\/a-map-of-middle-earth-annotated-by-tolkien.html"},"modified":"2015-11-05T10:40:10","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T17:40:10","slug":"a-map-of-middle-earth-annotated-by-tolkien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/25\/a-map-of-middle-earth-annotated-by-tolkien.html","title":{"rendered":"A map of Middle-earth, annotated by Tolkien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is very cool.<\/p>\n<p>(Word has it that Christopher Tolkien will be issuing a trilogy of atlases based on it.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/oct\/23\/jrr-tolkien-middle-earth-annotated-map-blackwells-lord-of-the-rings'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/Aac2InowTgAveVQWtHmt4FvoK7J9AGLiRJp8ieilYLPTu9AN8Y-2Dyzw0q55TYrSTFFtdZZfi8V0ab5vIb9EihIIf08_hp-Vjdc8auE71YgCQd0YIUQwL8vEy8S_N6hI3HsP054PxojkAP5nOypogh5g-kWjeiHlJk1TFE_KwMD5N3ppyhF1AKeOMmRhyj9Q6H7EJF26AXvxsdEatt8x0XvJVhBfIhPIkvHwYQX0XDjHCU5hSynmrJet3jso1A=w506-h910-k' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/oct\/23\/jrr-tolkien-middle-earth-annotated-map-blackwells-lord-of-the-rings'>Tolkien&#8217;s annotated map of Middle-earth discovered inside copy of Lord of the Rings<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nMap goes on sale in Oxford for &pound;60,000 after being found at Blackwell&rsquo;s Rare Books inside novel belonging to illustrator Pauline Baynes\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/BQzweMSDxVk'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is very cool. (Word has it that Christopher Tolkien will be issuing a trilogy of atlases based on it.) Tolkien&#8217;s annotated map of Middle-earth discovered inside copy of Lord of the Rings Map goes on sale in Oxford for &pound;60,000 after being found at Blackwell&rsquo;s Rare Books inside novel belonging to illustrator Pauline Baynes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/25\/a-map-of-middle-earth-annotated-by-tolkien.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A map of Middle-earth, annotated by Tolkien&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,382],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-lord-of-the-rings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5494,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/03\/lord_of_the_ch.html","url_meta":{"origin":128437,"position":0},"title":"Lord of the Ch-ching!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 3-Mar-04 12:39pm","format":false,"excerpt":"J.R.R. must be spinning in his grave, particularly given his strong Catholic faith. 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