Recurso desconhecido no mapa da Terra Média?

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No mapa de Christopher Tolkien da Terra-média, uma característica sempre me chamou a atenção e, até onde sei, nunca foi explicada: a massa no meio do Mar de Rhûn:

Isso já foi falado ou escrito sobre? É uma ilha? É um afloramento rochoso? Eles deveriam ser árvores? Areia? Pântanos Seja o que for, parece ser muito deliberado.

Eu também notei que muitos mapas feitos por fãs simplesmente ignoram esse recurso.

Qual é esse recurso no meio do Mar de Rhûn?

    
por Django Reinhardt 23.12.2014 / 17:59

2 respostas

Tanto quanto me lembro, não há nenhum nome para isso. É uma ilha sem nome.

A SDA da Wikia diz o mesmo:

The sea also contains an unnamed island that is about thirty miles along the southeastern and northwestern coasts and twenty upon the northeastern and southwestern coasts.

Além disso, deve ter sido arborizado. ( thainsbook ).

Houve uma discussão semelhante sobre TheTolkienForum . Um usuário contatou a Sociedade Tolkien com a pergunta, e aqui está a resposta:

Hello. Sorry about the delay. A staw poll revealed that in a very early version of the map, the Sea of Rhun had a large island in the middle. (Unfeasibly large, given the scale of the Sea, which is very big.) By the time the map hit publication, this had vanished and the dots appeared.

Those who have looked carefully at the various maps point out that there are similar dotty effects at the Mouths of Sirion and near Balar (Silmarillion), and references to "sands" in the Sil. The dots in the Sea of Rhun (on scale) could quite easily represent a constellation of small islands, but are more likely to mean sands, swamp or sand bars. (Actually small islands would make better geography on that scale.) There appears to be no actual reference to what is going on there.

There is a discussion of this also at TheOneRing.net which adds some details worth having. I don't however understand Quickbeam's reference to CRT "finding later manuscripts etc." as CRT drew up this map in co-operation with JRR while JRR was still alive and well and writing the books - there have AFAIK been no revisions by CRT to these maps on the basis of stuff he found after his father's death, when he started editing the unpublished mss. Indeed, it would be against his whole attitude of respect for his father's decisions to start "editing" LotR material subsequent to publication. I have asked QB what he means, but have not had a reply. As this was some time ago and you are waiting, this is my conclusion!

I would say "be careful of taking any craft with deep draft through these waters. You may get stuck."

Helen

Que, TBH, não acrescenta muito mais do que não há nome para a ilha.

A discussão que as referências de Helen podem valer para a posteridade:

I’ve been wondering about this for years, and now have found a few bits of evidence in the History of Middle-earth Volume VII that gives us a better clue.

Most all of the maps we see in today’s editions of LOTR come from the hand of Christopher Tolkien; redrafted from his father’s originals. Professor Tolkien altered and added to his maps as his work on the story progressed. His original working map (the "First Map") was a conglomeration of sections and glued bits of paper that he fussed with for many years: "It represents an evolution, rather than a fixed state of the geography." There was a later version called the "1943 map" that Christopher created.

Comparing these two maps, Christopher points out a well-forested island his father drew in the middle of the Sea of Rhûnaer, which would later be called the Sea of Rhûn. "The island in the Sea is coloured green on the First Map, and on the 1943 map is marked as wooded." That’s your island right there, but in later maps it seems to have vanished, replaced with an array of dots.

I don’t know exactly why Christopher changed it, but I suspect that later manuscripts and maps he found showed the removal of the island. Perhaps the discrepancy caused him to leave the dots to indicate what was a "questionable area."

Esta parece ser a resposta mais clara, se ainda for vaga.

    
23.12.2014 / 18:24

O mapa de 1954 incluído na primeira edição do SdA foi concluído às pressas. Christopher Tolkien foi trazido quase literalmente no último momento para produzir um único mapa de linhas coloridas para a edição impressa. Não surpreendentemente, houve erros e atalhos no processo para completar o mapa. A apresentação desta ilha foi uma dessas. Deveria haver uma ilha florestada lá.

    
15.06.2018 / 04:59