Angamaite: посты

54. References to 'the Water' and Bilbo's map of 'the County Round' (not, note, 'The Shire' – the latter conception did not yet exist) show that the essential neighborhood surrounding Bag-end (already so named) is much as it remains.

67. Although differing in significant details from the final version, it is remarkable how many permanent elements were already present and persisted from this first hasty sketch, which shows the mountain laid out two-dimensionally like a starfish.

83-85. Its geographical location shifts as the 'Third Age' of Middle-earth slowly takes shape in its own right through the writing of The Hobbit itself, eventually (as the second layer of changes to Fimbulfambi's Map show) developing its own landscape that could no longer be fitted easily into the older geography, so that 'Mirkwood' comes to occupy a central position in Wilderland (which now seems quite distinct from Beleriand) closer to that of the Forest of Doriath on the old Silmaril-lionmaps rather than Dorthonion (the place of which is eventually taken by the Grey Mountains on the later Wilderland maps).

The Water
The County Round (раннее название Шира)
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