Nonetheless, Angband’s placement on the “2nd Silmarillion Map” is consistent with all the passages in the published Silmarillion that refer to Angband and the movement of troops and peoples across the landscape. Utumno was destroyed by the Valar and Melkor imprisoned in Valinor for three ages, but on his return to Middle-earth, he took Angband as the seat of his power and raised the. ![]() Christopher Tolkien used the “2nd Silmarillion Map” as a guide for the map that he drew for the published Silmarillion but he omitted Angband from the final map. Angband was a mighty fortified citadel originally constructed by Melkor in the earliest days of the world as an outlying fortress to his northern stronghold of Utumno. Karen Wynn Fonstad left a gap that has yet to be filled, as there aren't many Tolkien cartographers. Tolkien switched the names of the two fortresses, such that Angband became the original, earlier fortress and Utumna became the later outpost.Īngband, so far as I know, was only shown on the “2nd Silmarillion Map”, which was published in The Lost Road and Other Writings. Pretty sure LotR Project's maps were based completely off of The Atlas. Angband is described as an outpost of Utumno.įor a while, as he developed the mythical world of the “Silmarillion” (not yet named Middle-earth), J.R.R. That said, in “Ambarkanta Map IV” (published in The Shaping of Middle-earth) Melkor’s fortress of Utumna/Utumno is placed directly north of the Blue Mountains, somewhat to the east of the later map’s location for Angband. These maps are not necessarily consistent with the published text of The Silmarillion and are most certainly NOT consistent with the published text (in any edition) of The Lord of the Rings. Hosting costs a lot of money and developing new projects takes hundreds of hours. In the menu to the right you can show events, places and character movements. If you enjoy this site please consider a small donation and help keep it ad free. Welcome to the map This is a high resolution interactive map of J.R.R. Galadriel told Elrond, "You have not seen what I have seen." Then, as if Galadriel was remembering an awful memory, there were dead bodies floating through a sea of red.Q: Do any Maps Show where Angband and Utumno Lay?ĪNSWER: There are two maps, both made prior to the writing of The Lord of the Rings, which show the approximate locations of Angband and Utumno. Welcome to the map This is a high resolution interactive map of J.R.R. On arriving in Beleriand, the region of Middle-earth nearest Angband. This mod includes 5 new nations for Early Age: Angband, Reign of the Iron Crown a dark nation fielding Orcs, Werewolves, Vampires and Trolls. While those scenes were cool, the most compelling shot happened at the 1:12 mark. Morgoth Bauglir is a character, one of the godlike Valar, from Tolkiens legendarium. Dominions of Middle-Earth seeks to insert Tolkiens lore into the world of Dominions as if it were a mythology as Tolkien intended it to be. She based that on Ambarkanta map IV, which places Utumno (Utumna as marked on the map) just east of the Blue Mountains.However, she did place it a bit further east than map IV on the textual basis that Utumno was supposed to be roughly in the center of the Ered Engrin rather than close to its western end where Angband was supposed to be. ![]() There was also a moment that looked like Noldorian Elves taking the Oath of Fëanor. There were glimpses of the two trees Laurelin and Telperion and, by extension, the Undying Land of Valinor. ![]() The most notable way that it did so was by giving fans glimpses of the First Age. However, the latest teaser has started to quell fans' fears by finally embracing LOTR lore. For example, time compression, incorrect bits of Dwarfish lore and the possibility of overuse of CGI has had fans more worried than a hobbit missing his second breakfast. Fans have raised legitimate concerns about the series' attention to detail and lack of adherence to LOTR lore. Middle-earths map will be quite different to the one Frodo and his Fellowship crossed in The Lord of the Rings. There has been a significant amount of negativity leading up to The Rings of Power's September release date.
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