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Below are two links showing the size of ME compared to the US and Europe. It made me realize that it was smaller than I imagined it. So

Mirkwood is about the size of the UK. It's big enough.

These are pretty cool - I like the comparison maps.

Don't forget, however, that Middle-earth is simply supposed to be prehistoric earth

Tolkien once said that Hobbiton lay at about the lat & long of Oxford.

Of course, that is only the best-known part of Middle-earth. Technically, M-e is all of the lands West of Valinor and the Undying lands. The whole of Arda would look more like this:

Valarian wrote:Mirkwood is about the size of the UK. It's big enough.

Agreed! There's a map of it on the intarweb:

These maps rock! Thanks guys for posting them.

For the most retail, I really like the following map:

http://hugo1900.pagesperso-orange.fr/MA ... SION-7.jpg

It is fairly large. Sorry, I did not know how to make it fit in the post. If some knows I will change it.

And here I was always led to believe that size didn't matter.

Well, if we're showing off Middle-earth maps.


https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/1124 ... 3176345425

That is a beautiful map.