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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Something in the Sea of Rhun
Call me a detail freak if you will....... Since the movie of The Fellowship Of the Ring came out I thought it'd be a good time to dig out the book for another read. I'm still wondering, if anybody would know: what does the stippled area in the Sea of Rhun on the map of Middle Earth represent? I've roved around the internet tonight and not turned up anything yet; thus far I've presumed it's a sandbank or shallow area.
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Are you sure the lines weren't jsut put there as contrast between the land and the sea?
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Entwife
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Sand bar?
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Elven Warrior
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see attached pic; should have done this earlier I guess. I scanned this from the map at the back of the books. It could be some sort of sandbar, but it's pretty big.
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Oh likely a forested Isle.
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Elven Warrior
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It is definitivley an island. As such it is marked on the original map drwan by JRR Tolkien him self. In the reproduction in The History of Middle-Earth volume 7 The Treason of Isengard it is seen without such dots on it.
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The Insufferable
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An island, yeah.
It could appear to be any number of other things though...
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An underwater Entmoot? A whale breeding ground? It doesn't look like an island on my map, I think a sandbar is more likely.
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How 'bout Chris Tolkien's attempt at an erasure with a pen?l/k
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Elven Warrior
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Thanks guys. Findegal, any chance you could scan your bit of the map? I had to crop it a lot and use greyscale/about 40dpi tp get it below 10kb.
Ta PS. I presumed it wasn't an island because it doesn't look like, for example, Himring. |
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Enting
Join Date: Apr 2003
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![]() For anyone interested, here is a scan of the relevant part of the map Findegil is referring to, as an attachment.
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The Intermittent One
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maybe it is an elvish land, the fabled dorwinion perhaps?
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Dúnedain Ranger of the North
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I always assumed it was a shallow part filled with reeds, cattails, lily pads, and such.
Or it could be where some tea was spilled....
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![]() I bet Snowdog is right, it does seem like a reedy, lily-paddy (lily-paddy? oh, well) sort of area in the water.
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Elentári
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Cool. I never even noticed it. Guess I should study the map more closely
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