This was a big project. Lots of study of the Atlas of Middle Earth. I learned a lot about what is actually going on.
If anyone wants the metadata I generated about the paths of all the characters, I can provide that. I don’t know what people might want to use it for, but I’m happy to give it away.
This is amazing! I believe I have the atlas you’re referring to (I keep meaning to put together my own “walk to Mordor” goal). I love seeing the movements like this.
Thanks! It was a fun project. Some day I hope to go back to it and add more detail. Maybe change the timing on the early parts so that there isn’t as much dead time while Boromir is the only one travelling. I’m always working on something, so it may be a while. I never did get around to adding The Fox, which was always kind of a joke, but I felt it needed to be in there. I also just realized I never put Goldberry in there either, which is a shame. There’s always more to do.
I was listening to the Fellowship of the Ring again and realized that in Lorien they mention that orcs travelled up to Moria days earlier, so the orcs weren’t just already in Moria, they travelled there, which means I should add them to the video.
The author of the atlas seems to have a background in map making because she also made a map book for Forgotten Realms that I have. I was organizing things and was thinking about what books to get rid of when I recognized the author’s name and decided to keep it for that reason.
I can see how this would be one of those projects that’s never quite finished. The fox, maybe Bill the pony…
As someone who really loves spiders, I am pretty tickled to see Shelob as a jumping spider, just sitting in her lair while all the action happens around her.
I pulled out my atlas again last night since it’s been a while and I’ve got to say, I think your video version was a lot more helpful to me in making connections between the various parties. The books and movies are always focused on one party at a time, so I have always tended to think of them that way. I have a very distinct memory of being 11 or 12, getting to the end of the The Two Towers where Shelob has Frodo, jumping right into The Return of the King, and nearly launching the book across the room when I found the story had gone back to Pippin and Gandalf.
