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It's not a fantasy novel if it doesn't have a map
Submitted by Capt. Xerox on November 9, 2006 - 1:51pm.
I don't read many fantasy novels these days, but one of the things that I liked most about them were the maps of the imaginary worlds in which they took place. I suppose the inclusion of maps in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings was responsible for that trend. They're still de rigeur today.
Maps must be popular because someone's even got a blog devoted them. It even has an entry for a map of the planet Mungo from Flash Gordon.
Fantasy maps have now been updated for the 21st-century. You can upload one into Google maps and let people navigate it in their web browsers. You can even add markers to highlight points of interest. Sorry, there is no satellite view of this map of Middle Earth.
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Does anybody else wince when during Peter Jackson's version of The Two Towers Faramir unfurls a map covered up by a cliche typeface? When he and his trusty aid vaguely point at large place names I have to look away and remind myself how cool the balrog looked.
The Eye of Mordor does not weep. (but everyone else does - Ed)
Heheh Good eye 'mate.
The Eye of Sauron may not leak, but if we're talking LOTR annoyances, I'd go with the perpetual "oh sam" "oh frodo" "oh sam" "oh frodo"'ing.
On the plus side, the films were EPIC in grandeur und scope, on the down side, so was the weeping.
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