Hundreds of two-color maps and diagrams survey the journeys day by day - battles, castles, forests, far lands, distinctive landforms, climate, vegetation, and population. Authentic and updated - nearly one third of the maps are new with a fully revised text - it illuminates the enchanted world created in The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings. Here is the essential guide to the geography of Middle-Earth from its founding in the Elder Days through the Third Age, re-creating the journeys of Bilbo, Frodo, and the Fellowship of the Ring. Completely revised, Karen Wynn Fonstad's The Atlas of Middle-Earth is an indispensable volume that will enchant all Tolkien fans. Find your way through every part of Tolkien's great creation from Middle-Earth to the undying lands of the west.