The Lord of the Rings contains three maps and over 600 placenames. The city of Minas Tirith (lower left) with its large encircling wall (the Rammas Echor) and the ruined city of Osgiliath astride the River Anduin nearby are shown. Tolkien's design for his son Christopher's contour map on graph paper with handwritten annotations, of parts of Gondor and Mordor and the route taken by the Hobbits with the One Ring, and dates along that route, for an enlarged map in The Return of the King Detail of finished contour map by Christopher Tolkien, drawn from his father's graph paper design. This line represented the printed delineation of the margin of the school paper, which came with the printed instruction "Do not write in this margin". Both maps have a heavy vertical line not far from the left-hand side, the one on the map of Wilderland marked "Edge of the Wild". The map is overprinted with placenames in red. Mirkwood is shown as a mixture of closely packed tree symbols, spiders and their webs, hills, lakes, and villages. The Misty Mountains are drawn in three dimensions. The other is a drawing of " Wilderland", from Rivendell in the west to the Lonely Mountain and Smaug the dragon in the east. The first is Thror's map, in the fiction handed down to Thorin, showing little but the Lonely Mountain drawn in outline with ridgelines and entrances, and parts of two rivers, decorated with a spider and its web, English labels and arrows, and two texts written in runes. In the view of the Tolkien critic Tom Shippey, the maps are largely decorative in the "Here be tygers" tradition, adding nothing to the story. The Hobbit contains two simple maps and only around 50 placenames. Further information: Tolkien's artwork The Hobbit
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