Monday, March 2, 2015

A Created Land

I'm thinking about drawing a map of the "land" in Lio and Lamb. 

That's usually one of my favorite parts of vaguely medieval fantasy. Tolkein's Middle Earth. Le Guin's Earthsea. Martin's Westeros (et al). I prefer the maps to be part of the books' pages, not just printed on end flaps. And I usually turn to them often enough to break my bindings there. 

Here's a picture of one of my favorite created worlds. This poster of Tolkein's Hobbiton hangs in my piano room. I bought it the last time I was in London, at my fourth favorite tourist spot there, the British Library. 




Tolkein painted this himself.

Do you want to guess my three favorite tourist spots?



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