Now, there's a familiar name. I've never seen her Middle Earth atlas, but I do have her Forgotten Realms atlas on my bookshelf, full of lovely hand-drawn maps.

Contrary to many of you, I had an upbringing where fantasy was simply not on the menu. I don't think my family had anything against it, it was simply not something they had heard about either. It was never a topic among the kids at school either. Tolkien was something I only learned of as an adult, after I learned about role-playing games which happened in my mid-teens. First as computer games (Eye of the Beholder anyone?), then the real deal.

I guess the closest I got to fantasy was the Narnia books, which I guess by one definition clearly fits the genre, but on the other hand doesn't really match up with the common fantasy archetypes, and I don't think there was any maps in any of the books I had.

I have a couple hanging around. All reproductions unfortunately, no originals.

Sorry for the image quality, but most of my stuff is hanging in a narrow hallway, so it is nearly impossible to get the camera far enough away to take a proper picture and getting proper lighting.

The one I kind of like the most is my tapestry though. The type of medium do lower the quality of details in the map, because it is woven, not just a simple cloth print, but that also makes it look very nice on my wall.

And some other ones, often purchased during travels:

Northern Europe

Iceland:

Europe:

When I started playing AD&D (2nd Ed) back in the early 90's I was elected the group's DM, so it became my responsibility to provide the adventures, and by extension, the maps for them. And now 30+ years later, my group still plays AD&D (2nd Ed), I am still the DM, and I still make the adventures and maps.

There are currently 1079 maps in the atlas (169 of them yours). But I still have a couple of sets in queue, so I am guessing we'll be around 1100 or so when I am done.

Another set with maps integrated into the atlas. Thanks for the contribution Ricko.