The Map of Tolkien's Middle-earth [Paperback]

Brian Sibley (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 24 pages
• Publisher: Harper Voyager (July 11, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0061055069
• ISBN-13: 978-0061055065
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #282,002 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I have been a professional writer for thirty years and a freelance broadcaster for the BBC in London for almost as long.

My career began as a radio-writer with dramatisations for the BBC which include serialisations of J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings", C. S. Lewis' "The Chronicles of Narnia" and Mervyn Peake's "Titus Groan" and "Gormenghast" for which I won a coveted Sony Radio Award. I have also made radio programmes on a wide variety of topics from the history of magic to the crimes of Jack the Ripper! Series of note include "A Century of Cinema", "The Sound of Movies" and "'Ain't No Mickey Mouse Business!"

My specialist interests have always been film (in particular animation) and children's literature and I have broadcast numerous radio and TV programmes and written several books about both these topics.

For the best part of a decade I presented weekly arts and film programmes on the BBC's domestic and World Service networks but have spent the last few years concentrating on books including a couple of best-sellers on the making of Peter Jackson's film trilogy, "The Lord of the Rings" and researching and writing that director's authorised biography, scheduled for publication in 2006.

I live in London with my life partner, a professional magician, in a house overcrowded with so many books, DVDs and CDs (not to mention all those old videos and gramophone records!) that it is seriously beginning to look like one of Amazon.com's smaller warehouses!

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32 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simple and perfect, February 20, 1999

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Jason Denzel (Northern California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Map of Tolkien's Middle-earth (Paperback)

This tiny little book is the perfect companion to "The Lord of the Rings" Trilogy. It is beautifully made and designed to either be something you can fit in your pocket, or put up on your wall. (It folds up nicely)

I would reccommend this to anybody who has read the series or is just starting out.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Beautiful Map, January 26, 2001

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Tuor (Bellevue, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Map of Tolkien's Middle-earth (Paperback)

This is a review of the map itself, not of the pamphlet that comes with it.

The map is clear, correct, and large enough to make out place-names that are almost illegible if you look at the maps in the paperback editions of Tolkien's works. The pictures are also excellent, but there is one flaw which has caused me not to give the map five stars: the paintings of Minas Tirith and various Good Guys are on the East side (right side) of the map while the pictures of Barad Dur, the Nazgul, and assorted other Bad Guys are on the West side (left side) of the map. Now, the problem with this is that the West contains the lands of the Good Guys and the East contains the lands of the Bad guys. It seems to me that these pictures should have been flipped so as to more accurately represent the political realities of Middle-earth.

4 of 76 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars he takes me into another world, December 28, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Map of Tolkien's Middle-earth (Paperback)

If it wasn't for him I would not have a high reading level. It would be neat to meet his family.