Sea of Ringil is spelled "Sea of Ringol".Alqualondë is at one point spelled "Aqualondë".
Tolkien himself was not specific as to their exact location in the Blue Mountains.
However, in the Second Age, Belegost has been moved an additional 150 miles south to the middle of the southern Blue Mountains. Under the First Age, Fonstad places Belegost approximately 150 miles south of its sister-city of Nogrod in accordance with The Shaping of Middle-earth, where it would have been drowned by the formation of the Gulf of Lune following the War of Wrath.
The placement of the Dwarf-city of Belegost is inconsistent. Throughout the atlas, the Witch-king is incorrectly referred to nominally as "Angmar" such as in the list of the belligerents and estimated forces at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. It was, however, published before the final three volumes of The History of Middle-earth were published, and thus some maps are based on Tolkien's early works, which were revised in later writings. The book was published in 1981, and in 1991, a revised and updated version was published, which took information from The History of Middle-earth series into account. Discussion includes suggestions as to the geology that could explain various formations, and points that are contradictory between multiple accounts.Ĭity maps and floor plans for important buildings are also included. The maps are treated as if they are of real landscapes, drawn according to the rules of a real atlas for each area the history of the land is taken into account, as well as geography on a larger scale and from there maps are drawn. The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings, and includes many detailed maps of the lands described in them. The Atlas of Middle-earth is a superior cartographic reference book for Tolkien's writings, i.e.
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