Visual Tour Through Tolkien’s Map of Middle Earth

This wonderful little video from Mapster’s Great Maps Explained series showed up in my feed yesterday, and I figured it’d be a good one to share here with my regular readers. Christopher Tolkien’s map of Middle Earth has become iconic among SFF enthusiasts, and this video takes the viewer on a wonderful little visual tour through the regional map published in J. R. R. Tolkien’s 1954 edition of The Fellowship of the Ring. It’s full of loads of details with nods to history, both real and imagined. If you’re a fantasy fan, a Tolkien fan, or just a map fan (or, like me, all three), it’s worth checking out.