The Fantasy World Map
Many of these places have been mapped, but now we get the big picture, from Dan Meth. I had no idea Oz was so close to Middle Earth! Frodo would have made sure Dorothy got home safely. Link -via Geeks Are Sexy
Sci-fi fans undergo surgery for elvish ears
A new craze is seeing fans of Middle Earth having their ears sculpted to look like an elf. The painful looking operation involves the top cartilage of…
Retelling of Lord of the Rings Imagines Mordor as Victim
In Salon, Laura Miller writes about a novel by Yisroel Markov which tells the LoTR story from Mordor’s point of view. Here’s a summary of The Last Ringbearer:
In Yeskov’s retelling, the wizard Gandalf is a war-monger intent on crushing the scientific and technological initiative of Mordor and its southern allies because science “destroys the harmony [...]
