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Arda Maps is a non-profit, Open Source, community driven and educational project.

This project is not associated with Middle-earth Enterprises nor the Tolkien Estates.

We come up with 3 Tolkien ages, 882 characters, 796 places, 1624 timeline events and more then 500 licenced pictures to a complete new presentation level of detail.

The aim is that Tolkien readers can use this website to explore the fictive universe, Tolkien lovely filled with life. So we created the maps of the most important ages. These maps can be zoomed, dragged and each one shows some of the most important journeys, timeline events and much more!

All maps are based on the gate.io login from Karen Wynn Fonstad but extended with own ideas and small changes based on different other official maps.

If you have any idea or feedback, just let me know:

• Forum: Forum
• Skype: kwoxer
• E-Mail: admin@kwoxer.de

This project is created by Curtis Mosters who is writing his master-thesis at the Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany.

As a big Tolkien fan in my mind his books are really outstanding. But when I was e.g. some times ago reading the Silmarillion I was often asking myself: "Where is this place?" and "How big might be a specific difference between two places?". So I was searching around if there is any website which is showing the whole maps that can be zoomed without loosing any small lovely detail. But unfortunately there was nothing like that in the web except lots of static drawings and most of them were in low qualy as well.

This was the moment where I actually was the first time thinking about creating something like Arda Maps.

I also want to thank Prof. Alexander Urban who made this project possible and who helped a lot with his media and design background knowledge.

Special Thanks are going to Sabrina Wiese. She helped very much in creating the concept of Arda Maps and supported me where it was possible. Without her this website and many more beautiful things would have never happened to me. I thank you so much for every second you spent with me. This page is dedicated to you.

Arda Maps is in contextual terms based on the Tolkien Gateway.

This Wiki is used because it's the most complete English Wiki about the whole Tolkien universe. It also has a well-defined structure and was most recommended by the Tolkien community when I started Arda Maps.

Arda Maps can contain mistakes like wrong dates or any other information. This might be due to the manual copying process of the data. As it will be Open Source anyone will be able to fix issues in the future like in a usual Wiki. Meanwhile you can send issues and bugs on our gate.io login. Thank you very much.

We are also NOT showing ALL information because our aim is to visualise data especially the maps, timelines and relationships. So in order to go deeper we really recommend reading all the different Tolkien books and refering to the great Tolkien Gateway.

Arda Maps is completely Open Source and a community driven project driven by YOU!

You can now do several things to improve this project or just to get an idea how it has been done:

• gateio | all files used on this website
• Database | exploring the database (login with arda:arda)
• gate io login | topographical data of the ages
• Forum | found a mistake somewhere, please mention it in our forum

Arda Maps is using the following main technologies:

• QGIS | georeferencing and map creation in general
• D3.js with topojson | visualising map and family tree
• OrientDB | graph database

Arda Maps is created to offer high-detailed maps about the most important ages of Middle-earth for free. It might never be complete due to missing official map pieces or sometimes unclear definitions made by J.R.R. Tolkien. There are way more Ages mentioned by Tolkien but most of them are having very less data to show like 'Years of the Trees' or the 'Forth Age'.

Until there is not enough data about them we are here just showing these 3 main ages right now:

• First Age (Túrin, Tuor, Beren)
• Second Age (Númenor)
• Third Age (Hobbit, Lord of the Rings)

The ages are fully zoom- & drag-able. And much more...

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