Tuesday, September 14, 2010

"You cannot wield it, it has no other master!"

This is freaking amazing.

INTERACTIVE MAP OF MIDDLE EARTH.

Essentially a Google map of Middle Earth. Wow, this is incredible. You can even look at the labels in Elvish. This is a great compliment to what is easily one of the greatest stories ever told. Truth be told, this is a little nerdy or geeky or whatever, but still it's cool. Look at the background page; looks like an old, unrolled scroll. Who's up for watching the trilogy?

-Jon

2 comments:

Chris L. said...

so... if that is a satellite image of middle earth, then 95% of middle earth was old paper? boy, they sure made it look good on screen.

and i am *still* up for watching it!

Kris Kowal said...

Thanks. And, I've got some ideas for the satellite images. There's a thing called Terragen. I might be able to make a height map and render it. Not the next thing I'm going to work on though.