#thror's map

[tea-rose-1300]

I decorated the inside cover of my planner with The Lonely Mountain

I made the moon runes ~ S P A R K L E Y ~

[theyoungwaldschrat]

So I just found these again... Ever since I was 12 I wanted to make a handwritten illustrated edition of the Red Book of Westmarch and I did start making one a few years ago but the halved A4 pages are just too small for binding and margin so I stopped. But the urge is strong to get me some larger nicely marbled paper and start over.

[nayeliq1]

Thror’s Map

Details under the cut

Thror's Map from The Hobbit movies, stitching on a painting canvas. Everything but the writing is done in stitching yarn and the runes that canonically only come out in certain moonlight are done with a glow in the dark paint! As a LotR connection, the golden writing along the edges is the Elvish script on the One Ring. This was a project for a birthday present, took forever, my fingers have never had this many calluses, but I had a blast doing this xD

[bl4ckr0s3xx]

𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘳'𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘱 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙤𝙗𝙗𝙞𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙤𝙗𝙗𝙞𝙩: 𝙖𝙣 𝙪𝙣𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙟𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙮 & 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙇𝙤𝙧𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙁𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙞𝙣𝙜

[louhetar]

I totally forgot to post it!

Thror’s map which I made for @cestvreth few weeks ago

The moonrunes glow in the dark!

[thewhimsyturtle]

Happy Tolkien Week and an early happy Hobbit Day, friends!*

Did you know that the Dwarves of Middle-earth drew maps with East at the top?  Thrór's Map is a great example, with lots of Old English runes to boot!  I spent some time examining the great red dragon Smaug, but I was fascinated most of all by the moon-letters.  Do you think these moon-letters could help me find a stash of neverending dandies?

* Hobbit Day, aka the birthday of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins and the day that determines when Tolkien Week is, is actually tomorrow, Sept. 22.  We are celebrating a day early because we have some other special photos lined up for tomorrow!

[theburnttree]

Thror's map burned onto Maple veneered board. 12" x 8"

[asgardian--angels]

So because I have so much free time to spare I drew Thror's map on my chalkboard. I had to whittle the chalk down Winchester-style (aka sat there with scissors scraping at it like a wooden stake) to be able to write this small, and Smaug was difficult to do because of his overlapping limbs, but I'm pretty proud of the runes and the overall result! I hope some people in my hall enjoy it, and you guys too :)