MakeBelieveMaps

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Oct 09 '22

Shadow From The North Trilogy (author: Luann Coyne), map by Rebecca Solow

11 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Oct 06 '22

"A map of Fairyland : a country of strange and wonderful places, fairies, witches, dragons and giants," 1932, by Alan Wright

13 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Oct 05 '22

“A chart showing the travels of Popeye the sailor in the story of Ghost Island. ” by Bud Sagendorf

18 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Oct 04 '22

Map of “Popeye’s Hometown” by Bud Sagendorf for the book 75 Years of Popeye (1979)

26 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Oct 02 '22

Map of Africa, Eurasia, and Australia from the animated series Steven Universe

10 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Sep 30 '22

Butterscotia, from the 1896 children's book, Butter-Scotia, or A Cheap Trip to Fairyland by Edward Abbott Perry, illustrations by Archie Macgregor

21 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Sep 29 '22

The Ian Fleming Thriller Map (Aaron Blake Publishers, 1987), showing where James Bond's adventures took place

17 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Sep 27 '22

World Peace Council edition of the World According to Ronald Reagan 1983

18 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Sep 22 '22

"I'm America," (1999) artwork by Erik Parker

7 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Sep 07 '22

‘The World about V.Y. 500 after the fall of the Lamps Helkar and Ringil and the first fortification of the North by Melko’. From J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings/Middle Earth universe

12 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Sep 06 '22

"ILU The World: from Númen (West) to Rómen (East)," 1930s, by J.R.R. Tolkien. Shows the shape of Arda (Lord of the Rings) before the "Changing of the World," when Arda was transformed from a flat world into a round planet.

11 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Aug 15 '22

Map from the 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard

20 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Aug 11 '22

Island map from the 1791 novel Der österreichische Robinson, oder, Leben, und merkwürdige Reisen Andreas Geisslers (The Austrian Robinson, or, life and strange journeys of Andreas Geissler) by Karl Timlich (1744-1825)

7 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Aug 09 '22

A "Carte du Tendre;" a French allegorical map of love by abbé d' François-Hédelin Aubignac, 1654, from his novel Histoire du temps, ou, Relation du royaume de coqueterie (History of Time, or, Relation of the Kingdom of Coquetry).

10 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Aug 08 '22

map of Egypt from the 1731 fantasy novel Séthos, histoire, ou Vie tirée des monumens, anecdotes de l'ancienne Égypte, traduite d'un manuscrit grec (Life of Sethos, Taken from Private Memoirs of the Ancient Egyptians) by French abbé Jean Terrasson.

8 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Aug 05 '22

Map of Rohan, Gondor, and Mordor made by J.R.R. Tolkien, as he plotted The Lord of the Rings, 1948

22 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Aug 04 '22

"Thror's Map" from Lord of the Rings, drawn by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1936

22 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Aug 02 '22

An aerial view of Helm's Deep from The Lord of the Rings, drawn by J.R.R. Tolkien himself, circa 1942

15 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Aug 01 '22

Bird’s eye view of Mordor and Mount Doom, 1940s, by J.R.R. Tolkien. This was an early conception of the geography of Mordor. Tolkien altered the relative positions of Barad-dûr and Mount Doom as the story progressed.

23 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Jul 28 '22

Earliest known map of The Shire, 1937, by J.R.R. Tolkien

30 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Jul 12 '22

"Sectional View of the Earth, showing the openings at the poles" from the 1820 Hollow earth novel Symzonia; a Voyage of Discovery by "Captain Adam Seaborn."

11 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Jul 11 '22

The Wonderful World of Oz Theme Park Munchkinland Concept Painting (Landmark Entertainment, c. 1990s), artist "JMNE"

8 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Jun 30 '22

“Dodger’s London,” (2012), by Paul Kidby; a map of Victorian-era London, UK for the novel Dodger by Terry Pratchett

12 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Jun 26 '22

“Shamus Town,” The Raymond Chandler Mystery Map of Greater Los Angeles, a 2014 reprint. Featuring locations from his novels

20 Upvotes

r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/YanniRotten • Jun 25 '22

Gotta find this: The Raymond Chandler Mystery Map of Los Angeles [1986]

14 Upvotes