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Fantasy map designer8/21/2023 ![]() It’s excerpted from his essay in Deserina Boskovitch’s Lost Transmissions: The Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy (which came out last month from Abrams). Here’s a piece by the author Lev Grossman about the urge to map fictional places. Will I let you see it at some point? Possibly, though not likely in its current form: the paint was barely dry on it when I delivered it, though it was quite well received. The presentation was called “The Territory Is Not the Map: Exploring the Fantasy Map Style,” and it drew on the arguments I made in recent Tor.com articles and in this post. That’s because I spent most of last week with my head down, working on a presentation about fantasy maps for a science fiction/fantasy convention that took place over the weekend. Tags fantasy map design, fantasy maps, Middle-earth, Tolkien A Fantasy Maps Update.Categories Maps and Literature, Obituaries.However hastily it was drawn, it was pivotal all the same. However, as things turned out it became, for all its defects and oddities, “the Map,” and my father himself always used it as a basis afterwards (while frequently noticing its inadequacies). I have long regretted that my father never replaced it by one of his own making. The exact preservation of the style and detail (other than nomenclature and lettering) of the map that I made in haste twenty-five years ago does not argue any belief in the excellence of its conception or execution. Regarding a new version of the map he drew for Unfinished Tales, he took pains to emphasize that It helped set the norm for subsequent epic fantasy novels: they would come with maps, and those maps would look rather a lot like the one drawn by Christopher Tolkien.Ĭhristopher Tolkien himself was self-deprecating about the execution of his map, and about the design choices he made. But one of his legacies is likely to be overlooked: he drew the map of Middle-earth that appeared in the first edition of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien and the executor of his literary estate and editor of his posthumous works, died yesterday at the age of 95. ![]() The British Library.Ĭhristopher Tolkien, the third son of J.
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