Tolkien’s Annotated Map Of Middle-Earth Discovered Inside Copy Of Lord Of The Rings

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Why is it that I never find any of these culturally relevant items that are worth many thousands of dollars?

The map was found loose in a copy of the acclaimed illustrator Pauline Baynes’ copy of The Lord of the Rings. Baynes had removed the map from another edition of the novel as she began work on her own colour Map of Middle-earth for Tolkien, which would go on to be published by Allen & Unwin in 1970. Tolkien himself had then copiously annotated it in green ink and pencil, with Baynes adding her own notes to the document while she worked.
 
hah "The Iron Hills"... now I can't get "Time Stands Still (at The Iron Hill)" by Blind Guardian out of my head.
 
there is a whole library of books on middle-earth history that has yet to be published. the only things we have seen have been described as a false representation of middle earth, problem being tolkein sold the rights way back when... now his brother has been editing the rest of his works forever.
 
MajorDomo said:
Actually it's Tolkien's son Christopher that took the reins and brought most of his father's unpublished works to fruition. JRR Tolkien's younger brother Hilary, died just three years after JRR.
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Correct. Christopher owns most of the right's, and he's been very, very, very careful with what's been published. There was an article about a year or two ago about the LotR game that came out last year, and all the hoops they had to go through during development that was quite illuminating.
 
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