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As per title, today I've suddenly ended up asking myself the question of 'how difficult would it be for a lone Rider of Rohan to make it to Dale from Edoras?'. This was brought on by a character I am trying out in a forum game of One Ring - was curious to see how it'd end up.

Well, I learned a few things along the way, my own confusion at a lot of Journey Rules (which my Loremaster has been monitoring mostly but I've read a while ago, to my shame), and that it was a bit difficult piecing together the Journey: Originally I was going to have just travel straight North, going by Fangorn and Lorien, but then realized how that'll be with no roads. So, second idea was to use the Anduin but the idea of SAILING up the Anduin on a boat with a horse seemed a bit silly, as I wasnt sure he could even get a boat near the Entwash or thereabout.

So I settled on the long road: Edoras to Bree, then take the road to Rivendell, but as he knows nothing of it, go a little south after the road and take the Mountain Pass instead of the High Pass as that placed him right beside Mountain Hall, where he hoped to get a Woodsman guide and scout the area asking for lore and the like, before crossing at the Old Ford, travelling through the lands of the Beornings, and then taking the Elf Path, then boating up to Esgaroth and then riding to Dale...

As it turned out the biggest difficulty wasnt even documenting and calculating all this - it was just how to join the maps together, as I ended up needing 3: Wilderland, Eriador, and Rohan. Which leads me to my topic's title: Do you guys in C7, by chance, have a plan for a complete map of Middle-Earth with Loremaster markings? I'd dearly love to get that printed and laminated large-format so I could roll it up and carry it in a tube for the sessions. I figure maybe its because Gondor isnt out yet and maybe Mordor as well, so not all of the maps' pieces are out, but I'm just guessing!

I'm curious to get an estimate as well

The four maps in Journey and Maps are relatively easy to stitch together as they use the same hex alignment. Its juts a matter of picking a crossover point.

For the Rohan/Gondor map to Eriador map, the Old South Road on the western boundary of Dunland would suffice. The High Pass is a good point for moving from Eriador to Wilderland.

You have only four passages, from North to South: Gundabad Pass / High Pass near Rivendell / Caradhras Pass or Moria , Gap of Rohan.

Interesting enough is that Elendil choose to go up the Anduin (by foot) for returning in Arnor, and not by the Gap of Calenardhon and then to Arnor. It seem's that by the time there's not a road between Calenardhon and Arnor.

Terisonen wrote:You have only four passages, from North to South: Gundabad Pass / High Pass near Rivendell / Caradhras Pass or Moria , Gap of Rohan.

And after the ruin of Tharbad, the Old South Road through Eriador isn't used much because fording the Greyflood seems to be difficult even when the river is running low.

It's too bad that by the later part of the Third Age there is no major seaport in the North other than the Grey Havens (which does not seem to support commercial shipping). I would think that one of the priorities of the Reunited Kingdom in the Fourth Age would be rebuilding the port of Lond Daer.

Yes inded: sea lane from Pelargir/Osgiliath to Tharbad.

Thinking of rebuiding by Fourth age, it could be a interesting topic: You're the King Elessar, what you would rebuild first?

Terisonen wrote:Yes inded: sea lane from Pelargir/Osgiliath to Tharbad.

Thinking of rebuiding by Fourth age, it could be a interesting topic: You're the King Elessar, what you would rebuild first?

First, repair Minas Tirith. Second, roads and other infrastructure such as the bridge at Tharbad. Third, Annúminas. Work on the harbor at Lond Daer would probably start sometime after the rebuilding of the northern capitol has begun. Fixing the roads and restoring the bridge would be necessary precursors to the rebuilding of Annúminas.

Terisonen wrote:Yes indeed: sea lane from Pelargir/Osgiliath to Tharbad.

Thinking of rebuiding by Fourth age, it could be a interesting topic: You're the King Elessar, what you would rebuild first?

Well, the books tell us what he rebuilt first: Annúminas. But what would he have rebuilt next?