Amazon's Lord of the Rings show...

[Tawmis]

Consider me very, very, very interested...
https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/02/15 ... ptic-clues
(Downloaded the snazzy map!)

[Rath Darkblade]

Hmm. I can't see anything on that map that I haven't seen before - same geography as all the maps I've already seen, minus the names of any locations at all - no Shire, no Mordor, no nothing.

I'm still cautiously optimistic, in the vein of "Good luck, Amazon - and don't screw this up!"

[Tawmis]

Hmm. I can't see anything on that map that I haven't seen before - same geography as all the maps I've already seen, minus the names of any locations at all - no Shire, no Mordor, no nothing.
I'm still cautiously optimistic, in the vein of "Good luck, Amazon - and don't screw this up!"

Well, I don't think they'd "add/change" Tolkien's map(s)... that be a sure fire way to get people in an uproar.
I just thought it was a very cool, very high resolution unmarked map of Tolkien's. Snazzy for wallpaper type stuff.

[Rath Darkblade]

Unmarked, perhaps - but everybody who knows LOTR also knows where things on the map should be (at least in a Third Age setting). The most extreme northwest, for a start, is the Grey Havens. In the southeast, beyond the C-shaped ring of mountains, is (of course) Mordor. And so on.

What I find curious is that this Mordor has what appears to be a large lake. Hmm?

It's also curious that north of Mordor's northern borders is another, larger lake on the border of some mountains and forests - and, to the east of that, is another large forest fringed by mountains. What could those be?