And there it was.
the late KWF's Atlas of the Land in hardcover. For $10.
I already had a copy of her atlas for the fantasy world of an obscure deceased Oxford don, of whom a few of you might have heard. I found not only her detailed maps, but her analyses of such items as journeys, geology from authors' descriptions of landforms, military campaigns, and so forth, fascinating and illuminating.
(I thought Mordor was a rift valley, but KWF interpreted it as a lava plateau.)
Her Donaldson atlas covers both the 1st & 2nd Chrons. So far I've found it quite illuminating and interesting. I should think these atlases are more useful for indepth research and forum discussion of the works they document, and for serious fanfic writers, than for simple reading.
Unfortunately, given her demise and the poor sales of the original, I doubt we'll see an updated or even reissued one, at least until the Covenant movie should actually come out. The movie adaptations of Lord of the Rings and Narnia resulted in a mass re-issue of lots of related and derivative old books by and about Tolkien and Lewis that had been out of print or at least seldom stocked for years. (Not to mention steaming mounds of cheap shoddy knockoff scholarship, but that's another story!)
(I also hate that she didn't live to produce a similar atlas of George RR Martin's Fire & Ice world.)
