As seen in LOTR: The Rings of Power, Valinor is directly west of Tolkien's Middle-earth world. Here's what's on the eastern side of the map.

Middle-earth may be land-locked on the north, south, and east. But its western border is one continual run of coastland. This expansive body of water is called Belegaer or the Sundering Seas.

And it’s no surprise that The Rings of Power honors Tolkien’s achievement in rendering Middle-earth in map form, both as a stylish technique and as a way of building stakes around the plot.

In fact, Tolkien was so pleased with Baynes’ work on the Middle-Earth map that he later introduced her to Lewis, and she went on to illustrate the Narnia books as well. Close.

For more map-based fun, check out The LOTR Project's interactive maps of Middle-earth in different eras, showing how the Rings of Power's geography lines up with the age of the other books and movies.

Google has brought J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth map to life to showcase the abilities of its Google Chrome browser and promote the new Hobbit film.

In particular, Cobo has problems with the direction that mapmaking has taken. In 150AD, Ptolemy drew the first world map with north placed firmly at the top.

A map of Middle Earth with notes from JRR Tolkien himself is definitely not something you stumble upon every day, but that didn’t stop me from checking my copy of an annotated The Hobbit just to ...

A map of Middle Earth - annotated by JRR Tolkien himself - is being displayed at the Bodleian Library just one day. Tolkien's notes on the map were made in the 1960s when his publishers wanted to ...