Geography professor designs real-world Tolkien-themed maps
American geography professor Stentor Danielson has designed creates maps of US cities in the style of the maps included in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.
Stentor Danielson, an Assistant Professor of Geography at the Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, has produced maps of Pittsburgh, Washington DC, Cleveland, Philadephia and Boston. All of them are available to buy from his Etsy Shop.
Source: io9.
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