I’ve not read the Lord of the Rings since I was a teenager, but this story in Wired is interesting about the construction of the world in maps that was behind it as well as languages.

From the forthcoming The Art of the Lord of the Rings, which collects Tolkiens’s preparatory drawings for his epic. Via/more at Wired.
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