Why would I need actual space for my keyboard and to move my mouse? And that cat tail is expertly trained to both click mouse buttons and hit keyboard keys whenever necessary (as determined by Jack)

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.