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Palette Meme: The Iron Hell– RivkaZ 2015

*wheeeeze* DONE. _(:p 」∠)_

This is what I picture Angband looking like from the top-down. Most of the fortress is subterranean, making this not even the upper most third of the map. Near the top of the center spire is where you will find Hurin’s chair. (Other above-ground structures that didn’t make it into the picture: Dragon hatchery and stable, Maethros’s shackle, and secret passage ways.)

I want my Angband to look like it was a solid, fugly square brick of a fortress that has been retrofitted with spare Utumno-parts and upgraded to suit all Melkor’s Beleriand-Conquering needs.

It’s a mix of designs: impossibly grand scaled pseudo-gothic architecture (to let you know that a Vala lives there), with battlements that are still the old no-frills anti-Oromë defense system left over from the Utumno days, all stuck in a blender with a bunch of lopsided spikes and melty Giger-esque doom.

Sauron provided the architecture and floor plan (complete with indoor plumming and practical considerations like “where do we put all the orcs”), and Melkor provided the asymmetry, the underground caverns, and the carelessly assembled volcanic hellscape.

houseofhaleth:

adenydd:

89ravenclaw:

Map of Beleriand

High Res

I edited together the four-pages that make up the large map of Beleriand in Karen Wynn Fonstad’s The Atlas of Middle-Earth. I also added a bit of color and texture to make it feel more like a map.

This is one of the few times I will asdfghjkl; on my keyboard. I’ve been looking for a complete, one-piece Beleriand map for AGES. Fonstad’s are the best because she places locations not shown on the “official” maps.

Additionally, I always wondered why the Beleriand maps printed in the books always cut out Angband and the North. That’s like cutting out Mordor from the maps in The Lord of the Rings. I never quite understood why.

I kept going back to the stupid map in the book like “but where IS Thangorodrim??? Where is Angband, I know where all these stupid little places are…it MUST be there…” How much of my life did I waste assuming the map made sense. I dread to think.

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to drag that shit ass excuse of a map from the published Silmarillion, and bless our lady of cartography, Karen Wynn Fonstad…

Source: 89ravenclaw