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JRR Tolkien's annotated Middle-earth map at Bodleian
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-36191978A map of the fictional Middle-earth that was annotated by Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien has been bought by Oxford's Bodleian Library.
It was previously owned by illustrator Pauline Baynes, who produced the first illustrative map for Tolkien's trilogy....
On the annotated map, Tolkien instructs Ms Baynes on the placement of important towns and cities like Hobbiton, the home of the trilogy's hero Frodo Baggins.
In one annotation he writes Hobbiton should be "approximately at the latitude of Oxford", where the author lived.
It was previously owned by illustrator Pauline Baynes, who produced the first illustrative map for Tolkien's trilogy....
On the annotated map, Tolkien instructs Ms Baynes on the placement of important towns and cities like Hobbiton, the home of the trilogy's hero Frodo Baggins.
In one annotation he writes Hobbiton should be "approximately at the latitude of Oxford", where the author lived.
