Angband map
The distance given here of 150 leagues (450 miles) from Menegroth to Angband's gate, more than doubling that shown on the second map, seems to imply a great extension of the northern plain. CT preferred the post-LotR texts and therefore omitted it from the published map, as he notes in History of Middle-earth 11: Thangorodrim was on the very north of the second map, but according to the post-LotR texts it would have been well off-map.
Since the second Silmarillion map was also the last (again, HoME5) this difference in distances was never reconciled. In post-Lord of the Rings writing it is said that 'the gates of Morgoth were but one hundred and fifty leagues distant from the bridge of Menegroth' whereas according to the scale of the second Map the distance was scarcely more than seventy.
The reason for this was a contradiction between the second (and final) JRRT map and the later Silmarillion texts which CT used as a basis for the published work quoting here from History of Middle-earth 5:Īt this time Thangorodrim was conceived to be quite near: the second Map agrees closely with the Ambarkanta map V in this. Thangorodrim was on all of the draft maps published in History of Middle-earth but was omitted from the map in the published Silmarillion. The Later Quenta Silmarillion: Of Beleriand its Realms (Chapter 11)", pp. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, "Part Two. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, "Appendix: III. Furthermore, Christopher reproduced in the same volume a redrawn version of a photocopy of the North-east section of the same map, kept and annotated by his father. The War of the Jewels (1994) provided yet another reproduction of the Second 'Silmarillion' Map, featuring "subsequent alterations and additions", with commentaries on the changes. This map was the basis for the Map of Beleriand and the Lands to the North included in The Silmarillion (1977). A redrawn version of the map was reproduced by Christopher Tolkien in 1987 as an Appendix to The Lost Road and Other Writings. Tolkien of Beleriand, dating from the early 1930s. The Second 'Silmarillion' Map is a map (on four sheets) drawn by J.R.R. There was a later and larger map which included Angband and territories further North. An oversight? Incomplete? It could be a number of factors that kept it out. The truth of the matter is that there was no map of Angband in the original publication.
#Angband map mac os
It runs on the same wide of systems that Angband does - Unixes, DOS, Windows, and Mac OS X, amongst others. Zangband currently falls under the same licence as Angband, though one of the aims of the current development team is to make it entirely GPLable. However, 10 years later in 2015, it would appear development is no longer active. In late 2005, the lead developer Steven Fuerst has returned to Zangband and it would be a reasonable expectation that development would now speed up. The current version is v2.7.4c, released from August 1, 2004, though many people play the current development version, which has had significant changes compared to the previous release. Originally created by Topi Ylinen, Zangband's development has seen a lot of additions to the original Angband game (a wilderness, an OAngband-style combat system, and a totally different kind of balance from the normal game being some of the more notable changes). ZAngband introduced a map, outside the town, of countryside with more dungeons. Tolkien's books, Zangband revolves around the world of "Amber" created by Roger Zelazny (hence the name, which is supposed to mean "Zelazny Angband"). Zangband is one of the most succesful of the countless variants of Angband. Zangband is a variant of Angband which started in 1994.