Beleriand at the End of the First Age

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Beleriand at the End of the First Age (Atlas of Beleriand - Map 9)

After the War of Wrath, the last great battle in the First Age, the Beleriand was broken and swallowed by the Great Sea, Belegaer. Only few islands and rocks subsisted (such as Tol Morwen [1]), whereas a part of East Beleriand become the Lindon.

This map shows the junction between the map of the Lord of the Rings and the map of the Silmarillion. The problem of the junction was discussed previously by Charles Noad [2], Ronald E. Kyrmse [3] and Didier Willis [4]. The attempt of Karen W. Fonstad in her Atlas of Middle-Earth [5] was clearly unsuccessful.

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About the Atlas of Beleriand

This Atlas is a serie of ten maps (and more !) concerning geography, history and geopolitics of Beleriand, which is a territory of  the famous Legendarium of J.R.R. Tolkien, including the Silmarillion.

This map was firstly created to illustrate an essay (in french) dedicated to explore the geopolitics in Beleriand published on the website JRRVF (many thanks to Cedric for his support).This map was firstly released on Deviantart.

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Technical details

In these maps, two free fonts are used : Franklin Gothic Medium and Cardo by David J. Perry.

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Bibliography and references

[1] HOME XI p.296.

"As after indeed befell, and still the Tol Morwen stands alone in the water beyond the new coasts that were made in the days of the wrath of the Valar." 

See the awesome depiction of Tol Morwen published on DeviantART by digital-fantasy :www.deviantart.com/art/tol-mor…
[2] "A Note on the Geography of the First Age" in Amon Hen 38, april 1979.
[3] "The Geographical Relation between Beleriand and Eriador" in Mallorn 26, pp 25-26, september 1989.
[4] "Du Beleriand aux confins de Rhûn - Collags et reconstructions cartographiques" in the anthology Tolkien, le façonnement d'un monde 2014, pp 197-230.
[5] K. W. Fonstad, The Atlas of Middle-Earth, revised edition, Houghton Mifflin, 1991