Maps of Beleriand

[Sirielle]

Hello! This is my first map, done at first in Painter, then finished in Photoshop. It is not an original fictional land, but a map of Beleriand from The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, based on official maps: by J.R.R. Tolkien published in the History of Middle-earth, by Christopher Tolkien in The Silmarillion & by Karen Wynn Fonstad in The Atlas of Middle-earth. There are also details found in texts by Ominus and myself, which are not present on the official maps. Some objects/places are just a guess based on texts, as is the distance between Thangorodrim in the North and the lands of the Elves. Ominous also drew representation of Thangorodrim and the compass rose on the color map, and has made the tengwar frame*. The map is published on-line with Ominous's permission. If you know the books, you are aware there is no Thangorodrim/Angabnd on the official map in The Silmarillion, which always bothered me. It is only present on the atlas map and in the old map in HoME, which not everyone possesses. So I drew my own map which shows the placement of the fortress of evil, though only after friends encouraged me to it and did research for me while I was drawing.

*If you cannot read it - I cannot - it says the map has been done by myself, and the Thangorodrim, tengwar frame and compass rose by him. In a few languages

There are two variants of the map - the b&w map of the realms, which I colored and redrew into the main map:

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The Realms of the Noldor and the Sindar in Beleriand in the beginning of the I Age of Sun and during the Siege of Angband.

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Beleriand and Realms of The North