Middle Earth compared to Europe/Asia - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Hans Markus Rod · 05-04-2003, 07:30 AM

Do anyone have a link to a map with Europe overlapping Middle-Earth. I sure would like to see how big Middle Earth really is compared to Europe... [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Amarie of the Vanyar · 05-04-2003, 08:31 AM

Here you have one link to a comparison between Europe and Middle Earth [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

http://people.wiesbaden.netsurf.de/~...n/M-e_Euro.jpg

Regards from Valinor [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Mitheithel · 05-05-2003, 09:06 AM

I have no link but here`s what I read from "The Magical Worlds of the Lord óf the Rings" by David Colbert (it was estonian so this is the translation):

"One thing is certain: The Middle-Earth is not invented. It is Europe. There was a word in Old English like Middlaearth,"(that means the middle of the World, all civilisations always think that they are in the middle of the World)", and though the description and maps are not familiar with those of Europe, for example no Great Britain or Ireland, the form of the continents might have changed. Tolkien wrote in the Prologue of "The Lord of the Rings" that old maps do not fit with the new ones because the shapes of the earth have changed in time."

Well, hope that is helpful and didn`t go too much off topic.

Atariel · 05-06-2003, 12:47 PM

Perhaps this is just a sentimental thought of mine, but I believe that there used to be educated, knowledgeable civilisations on earth, with their own medicines and almost perfect lives, but with no electricity, and, obviously, with males as the dominant gender. and then the people like the celts came over from Germany (yes, i know you're probably thinking 'she's talking about the Saxons, she's got it all wrong, but the Celts were originally from central europe, and came over to Britain on the land bridge between England and France, which disappeared 7000 years ago), and destroyed their cutlures, burned their palaces, villages, temples and citadels to the ground and started messily from scratch. and isn't Beleriand just SO like Atlantis?

05-04-2003, 07:30 AM	#1
Hans Markus Rod Pile O'Bones Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Asker Posts: 23	Middle Earth compared to Europe/Asia Do anyone have a link to a map with Europe overlapping Middle-Earth. I sure would like to see how big Middle Earth really is compared to Europe... [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ 'In this bloody dawn I will wash my sword, to call the spirit of vengeance, to deny my wisdom for anger, to break the scream of the silent foe and to be the Son of Doom.'

05-04-2003, 08:31 AM	#2
Amarie of the Vanyar Wight Join Date: May 2003 Location: Valinor Posts: 215	Here you have one link to a comparison between Europe and Middle Earth [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] http://people.wiesbaden.netsurf.de/~...n/M-e_Euro.jpg Regards from Valinor [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ But it is said that not until that hour had such cold thoughts ruled Finrod; for indeed she whom he had loved was Amarië of the Vanyar, and she went not with him into exile.

05-05-2003, 09:06 AM	#3
Mitheithel Pile O'Bones Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Estonia Posts: 24	I have no link but here`s what I read from "The Magical Worlds of the Lord óf the Rings" by David Colbert (it was estonian so this is the translation): "One thing is certain: The Middle-Earth is not invented. It is Europe. There was a word in Old English like Middlaearth,"(that means the middle of the World, all civilisations always think that they are in the middle of the World)", and though the description and maps are not familiar with those of Europe, for example no Great Britain or Ireland, the form of the continents might have changed. Tolkien wrote in the Prologue of "The Lord of the Rings" that old maps do not fit with the new ones because the shapes of the earth have changed in time." Well, hope that is helpful and didn`t go too much off topic. __________________ As grey as winter storms up there Are silver waves of Mirrormere.

05-06-2003, 12:47 PM	#4
Atariel Haunting Spirit Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Valimar Posts: 68	Perhaps this is just a sentimental thought of mine, but I believe that there used to be educated, knowledgeable civilisations on earth, with their own medicines and almost perfect lives, but with no electricity, and, obviously, with males as the dominant gender. and then the people like the celts came over from Germany (yes, i know you're probably thinking 'she's talking about the Saxons, she's got it all wrong, but the Celts were originally from central europe, and came over to Britain on the land bridge between England and France, which disappeared 7000 years ago), and destroyed their cutlures, burned their palaces, villages, temples and citadels to the ground and started messily from scratch. and isn't Beleriand just SO like Atlantis? __________________ Nai tiruvantel, ar varyuvantel i valar tielyanna nu vilya