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Beneath The Middle East, An Ancient Seabed Is Splitting From The Continental Plates
An ancient oceanic plate under modern-day Iraq is breaking off horizontally, researchers have shown in a new study. This huge ...
Ancient Oceanic Plate Rips Apart Beneath Iraq and Iran
A research team is investigating the influence of the Zagros Mountains on the bending of Earth's surface. A team of ...
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The Lord Of The Rings Map Explained: All Middle-Earth Locations
The East and West ... outpost in the Misty Mountains, having run from Eregion as it fell to Sauron. Rivendell became one of ...
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Overlooked No More: Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien’s Middle-earth
“from a diagram of the evolution of the languages of Middle-earth to tables of the lengths of mountain ranges and rivers. It’s a true atlas (the author is a geographer) and quite an achievement.
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Read this: A long-unexpected obituary for Middle-earth’s mapmaker
Now in its 32nd printing, Fonstad’s Atlas Of Middle-earth featured 182 hand-drawn maps and included diagrams of linguistic evolution and tables outlining the lengths of rivers and mountain ranges.