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Welcome back to everyone’s favorite www.isleyunruh.com Monday feature!  Middle Earth being the place of enchantment and wonder that it is, each month I will use my love of fictional cartography to transport you to another time and place.  So why not take a moment to fill your head full of knowledge that will have no bearing  at all on the real world?

This month I’ll be discussing Drúwaith Iaur and its mysterious inhabitants. (more…)

Welcome back to everyone’s favorite www.isleyunruh.com Monday feature!  Middle Earth being the place of enchantment and wonder that it is, each month I will use my love of fictional cartography to transport you to another time and place.  So why not take a moment to fill your head full of knowledge that will have no bearing  at all on the real world?

This month I’ll be discuss the famous fords of the river Poros, the gateway to the realm of Gondor from the South. (more…)

Welcome back to everyone’s favorite www.isleyunruh.com Monday feature!  Middle Earth being the place of enchantment and wonder that it is, each month I will use my love of fictional cartography to transport you to another time and place.  So why not take a moment to fill your head full of knowledge that will have no bearing  at all on the real world?

This month I’ll be discuss the great inland Sea of Rhûn. (more…)

Welcome back to everyone’s favorite www.isleyunruh.com Monday feature!  Middle Earth being the place of enchantment and wonder that it is, each month I will use my love of fictional cartography to transport you to another time and place.  So why not take a moment to fill your head full of knowledge that will have no bearing  at all on the real world?

This month I’ll be discuss The Western Isles (Himling, Tol Fuin and Tol Morwen), the last remnants of the land of Beleriand. (more…)

Welcome back to everyone’s favorite www.isleyunruh.com Monday feature!  Middle Earth being the place of enchantment and wonder that it is, each month I will use my love of fictional cartography to transport you to another time and place.  So why not take a moment to fill your head full of knowledge that will have no bearing  at all on the real world?

This month I’ll be talking about Isildur’s final resting place in the reed strewn marshes at the mouth of the river Gladden. (more…)

Welcome back to everyone’s favorite www.isleyunruh.com Monday feature!  Middle Earth being the place of enchantment and wonder that it is, each month I will use my love of fictional cartography to transport you to another time and place.  So why not take a moment to fill your head full of knowledge that will have no bearing  at all on the real world?

This month I’ll be looking at the desolate valley of The Withered Heath in the Grey Mountains to the North of Mirkwood. (more…)

Welcome back to everyone’s favorite www.isleyunruh.com monday feature!  Middle Earth being the place of enchantment and wonder that it is, each month I will use my love of fictional cartography to transport you to another time and place.  So why not take a moment to fill you head full of knowledge that will have no bearing  at all on the real world?

This month I’ll be looking at the ruined city of Fornost Erain. (more…)

The time you have all been waiting for is here!  That’s right, the final www.isleyunruh.com Monday feature will be Middle Earth Monday: where I use my love of fictional cartography to take an in depth look at a different place in Middle Earth each month!  Oh don’t all leave at once, it can’t be any worse than my film “essays” right?  Besides, Middle Earth is a place of enchantment and wonder, so why not take a moment to fill you head full of knowledge that will have no bearing  at all on the real world?

For today’s inaugural post, I’d like to take a look at my all time favorite lake in Middle Earth!  No, not Lórien’s famous shaded lake Lórellin, nor the misnamed “Sea” of Núrnen, and, no, not even Lake Titicaca (that would be my all time favorite REAL lake); instead I’ll be talking about the lake of Nen Hithoel for this month’s Middle Earth Monday. (more…)