Find your way through every part of Tolkien's great creation, from Middle-Earth to the undying land of the west...
This revised edition of Karen Wynn Fonstad’s The Atlas of Middle-earth, from its founding in the Elder Days – as recounted in The Silmarillion – to the Third Age, re-creating the journeys of Bilbo, Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring.
Hundreds of two-colour maps and diagrams survey the journeys, battles, castles, forests, far lands,distinctive landforms, climate, vegetation and population, all illuminating the enchanted world created in The Silmarillion, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
A great modern classic and the prelude to The Lord of the Rings
Smaug certainly looked fast asleep, when Bilbo peeped once more from the entrance. He was just about to step out on to the floor when he caught a sudden thin and piercing ray of red from under the drooping lid of Smaug's left eye. He was only pretending to sleep! He was watching the runnel entrance...
Whisked away from his comfortable hobbit-hole by Gandalf the wizard and a band of dwarves, Bilbo Baggins finds himself caught up in a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon...