In what is surely a turn up for the books, a map of J.R.R Tolkien’s Middle-earth has been discovered inside a copy of Lord Of The Rings..
And it reveals that the Lord Of The Rings author placed Hobbiton on the same latitude of Oxford. As Tolkien was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University, the new placement of Hobbiton will come as no surprise to many fans.
The long-hidden map was found in a copy of Pauline Baynes’ copy of the 1955 book. It was later acquired by Blackwell’s Rare Books via the executor of Pauline’s estate.
Pauline, an acclaimed illustrator, had reportedly taken the map from another edition of the novel as she began work on her own colour map of… Read the full story