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  War of the Ring.net - Book Reviews
---About the Author: "Karen Wynn Fonstad is a noted cartographer who has her master's degree in geography from the University of Oklahoma and has taught geography at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh.
Karen Fonstad took those maps and combined it with the text in Tolkien's books to create The Atlas of the Middle-Earth.
This book includes seven sections: The First Age, The Second Age, The Third Age, Regional Maps, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and Thematic Maps.
www.warofthering.net /bookreview/000002.shtml   (346 words)

  
  Lord of the Rings Movies Information | TheOneRing.net™ | News Archives
Karen was a big reader of the website and was greatly pleased by fans' reactions to her work on the Atlas and other things.
Karen Lea Wynn Fonstad, age 59, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin died March 11, 2005 of complications from breast cancer.
Karen is survived by her husband, Todd; her son, Mark; her daughter, Kristina (Chad) Stingle; two sisters, Peggy (Jerry) Rhoton and Marsa (Derald) Crissup of Norman, Oklahoma; and several nieces and nephews.
www.theonering.net /perl/newsview/8/1110669403   (648 words)

  
 Wizards Books
Karen Wynn Fonstad, author of atlases for the worlds of Dragonlance and the Forgotten Realms, recently passed away.
Karen Fonstad was TSR’s first and only choice for the Dragonlance Atlas, because of her beautiful work on the Tolkien atlas.
During the time we worked together, Karen’s family relocated to Tennessee from Oshkosh for a year, I believe, where her husband was a visiting professor.
www.wizards.com /default.asp?x=books/main/kwfonstad2005   (554 words)

  
 Fantasy a Sci-fi: Obchůdek
Find your way through every part of Tolkien's great creation, from Middle-Earth to the undying land of the west...
This revised edition of Karen Wynn Fonstad’s The Atlas of Middle-earth, from its founding in the Elder Days – as recounted in The Silmarillion – to the Third Age, re-creating the journeys of Bilbo, Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring.
Hundreds of two-colour maps and diagrams survey the journeys, battles, castles, forests, far lands,distinctive landforms, climate, vegetation and population, all illuminating the enchanted world created in The Silmarillion, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
fantasy-scifi.net /obchod   (277 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Atlas of Middle-Earth: Books: Karen Wynn Fonstad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Karen Wynn Fonstad is a qualified geographer and cartographer who first mapped Middle-Earth in 1981 and has since added much new detail based on those endless volumes of drafts, abandoned passages, alternative versions, and laundry lists published since Tolkien's death.
In some cases it's obvious Fonstad's research was superceded by later books she didn't have access to.
Fonstad's maps show a world that is "only half as large as the real earth" is in error.
www.amazon.com /Atlas-Middle-Earth-Karen-Wynn-Fonstad/dp/0395535166   (2065 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: The Atlas of Tolkien's Middle-Earth: Books: Karen Wynn Fonstad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
She fills in gaps and details in the familiar Third Age maps from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, goes back in time to map Middle-Earth's First and Second Ages, and reconstructs the route and time-scale of every important journey in the stories.
The Atlas of Middle Earth by Karen Wynn Fonstad
Anyone producing even a nithe of Karan Wynn Fonstad's work is truly worth acknowledging.
www.amazon.co.uk /Atlas-Tolkiens-Middle-Earth-Karen-Fonstad/dp/026110277X   (1363 words)

  
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 Karen Wynn Fonstad - Definition, explanation
Karen Wynn Fonstad (1945–2005) was the author of several atlaseses of fictional worlds.
She was born April 181945 in Oklahoma City: her parents were James and Estis Wynn.
While attending OU she met Todd A. Fonstad: they married on March 211970.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/k/ka/karen_wynn_fonstad.php   (285 words)

  
 Amazon.de: The Atlas of Middle-Earth: English Books: Karen Wynn Fonstad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
She fills in gaps and details in the familiar Third Age maps from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, goes back in time to map Middle-Earth's First and Second Ages, and reconstructs the route and timescale of every important journey in the stories.
In the paperback revision of a hardcover that is out of print, cartographer Fonstad here details that aspect of these stories.
Karen Wynn Fonstad has done a remarkable job of mapping Middle-earth.
www.amazon.de /Atlas-Middle-Earth-Karen-Wynn-Fonstad/dp/0395535166   (1353 words)

  
 Karen Wynn Fonstad dies at 59 :: Council of Elrond :: Lord of the Rings News and Information
Karen Wynn Fonstad dies at 59 :: Council of Elrond :: Lord of the Rings News and Information
Author and map-maker Karen Wynn Fonstad died on the 11th March 2005.
While best known to us as the author and map-maker for "The Atlas of Middle-earth", Karen was also a freelance map-maker and a part-time lecturer at the University of Wisconsin.
www.councilofelrond.com /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3236&POSTNUKESID=cb3efbc1ae575a34380216e805d59fdf   (335 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Atlas of Middle-Earth: Books: Karen Wynn Fonstad,Christopher Tolkien,J.R.R. Tolkien   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Karen Wynn Fonstad is a qualified geographer and cartographer who first mapped Middle-Earth in 1981 and has since added much new detail based on those endless volumes of drafts, abandoned passages, alternative versions, and laundry lists published since Tolkien's death.
She fills in gaps and details in the familiar Third Age maps from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, goes back in time to map Middle-Earth's First and Second Ages, and reconstructs the route and timescale of every important journey in the stories.
Where these errors arise, Ms Fonstad has made reasonable assumptions or compromises between the conflicting data, but none of them seriously detract from Tolkien's word in any way.
www.amazon.ca /Atlas-Middle-Earth-Karen-Wynn-Fonstad/dp/0618126996   (1388 words)

  
 Textbooks by J R R Karen Wynn Fonstad Tolkien - Direct Textbook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Textbooks by J R R Karen Wynn Fonstad Tolkien - Direct Textbook
Textbooks by J R R Karen Wynn Fonstad Tolkien
The Atlas of Middle-Earth by J. R.) Karen Wynn Fonstad (Tolkien
www.directtextbook.com /author/j-r-r-karen-wynn-fonstad-tolkien   (87 words)

  
 Karen Wynn Fonstad on LibraryThing | Catalog your books online
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 TolkienFrance.net - Cartes
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 Karen Wynn Fonstad - Tolkien Gateway
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Karen Wynn Fonstad (April 18, 1945 – March 11, 2005) was the author of the popular Atlas of Middle-earth along with other fantasy-related atlases.
She was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin with a Masters Degree in Geography and a specialty in cartography.
tolkiengateway.net /wiki/Karen_Wynn_Fonstad   (101 words)

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