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Some stunning views of Middle-earth Imagine this for Malazworld!

#1 Werthead

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Posted 15 February 2014 - 04:32 PM

The fan community for Outerra - a graphics engine capable of rendering high-quality terrain images from relatively sparse data - has recreated Tolkien's Middle-earth using the software. This has resulted in some stunning and impressive views, especially considering this is only an alpha version.

You can see more pictures here and here, and a discussion on the Outerra forum here. The dedicated Middle-earth project website can be found here. Plus there's also a tech demo video.

This could be the next big thing for fantasy cartography. Westeros or Faerun or Malaz next?

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#2 Illuyankas

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Posted 15 February 2014 - 05:41 PM

The fact none of those links were to a New Zealand tourism board is almost as impressive.

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#3 nacht

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Posted 15 February 2014 - 05:47 PM

Impressive but can it do potshreds :-) and the shadow warren :-)

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#4 Tsundoku

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Posted 08 April 2022 - 08:06 AM

Some more views of Tolkien's work.

Includes link to Tolkien Estate website.

https://www.worldatl...-viewing-online

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Posted 08 April 2022 - 04:32 PM

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Posted 24 April 2022 - 01:56 PM

Figured this thread is a good enough place to post this - limited edition illustrated version of LOTR by the Folio Society is gorgeous and also $1500...

Might be quite hard to persuade Mrs Tiste to let me get this one...

https://nerdist.com/...-folio-society/

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