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According to [/i]Letters[/i] no 294 p. 376, Hobbiton and Rivendell are approximately at the same latitude as Oxford (51-52°N), Minas Tirith at the latitude of Florence (43.7°N) and Pelargir and the mouths of Anduin around the latitude of ancien Troy (39.9°N).

According to the annotations provided by J.R.R. Tolkien to Pauline Baynes ([i]The Guardian[/i], 23 octobre 2015), Hobbiton is again approximately at the same latitude as Oxford, and Minas Tirith is about the latitude of Ravenna (44.4°N). The bottom of is about the latitude of Jerusalem, and Umbar about that of Cyprus. Minas Tirith, being approximately 900 miles east of Hobbiton, is located near Belgrade (20.4°E).

These pieces of information might be problematic (geodesic distances do not correspond), unless deformation due to the map projection are assumed.

The reconstructed map below assumes a Lambert conformal conical projection for Europe (standard parallels 40°N and 56°N, central meridian 12.5°E). Middle-earth is then scaled so that to have Hobbiton at 51°N and Minas Tirith at 44°N,20.4°E. The projection "errors" are represented as dashed [i]horizontal[/i] lines ignoring the Earth's curvature.

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23:35, 3 November 2015Thumbnail for version as of 23:35, 3 November 20151,070 × 587 (351 KB)Drakon (talk | contribs)According to [/i]Letters[/i] no 294 p. 376, Hobbiton and Rivendell are approximately at the same latitude as Oxford (51-52°N), Minas Tirith at the latitude of Florence (43.7°N) and Pelargir and the mouths of Anduin around the latitude of ancien Troy (39

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