Arda Maps is a non-profit, Open Source, community driven and educational project.
This project is NOT associated with Middle-earth Enterprises nor the Tolkien Estates.
We come up with 3 Tolkien ages, 882 characters, 796 places over 1624 timeline events and more than 500 licenced pictures to a complete new presentation level of detail.
The aim is that Tolkien readers can use this website to explore the fictive universe, Tolkien lovely filled with life. So we created the maps of the most important ages. These maps can be zoomed, dragged and each one shows some of the most important journeys, timeline events and much more!
We support the most important ages in a pretty high resolution (54x zoom). You just need to load it once and you have all the data you need. There is no need of downloading any map source later:
First Age (topographical view)
Second Age (topographical view)
Third Age (topographical view)
To see the satellite view of the specific Age, simply click the Earth image on the bottom.
Next to exploring the map you can as well create direct links for a map like this one: http://arda-maps.org/ages/third/#MinasTirith
For this simply click on a location on any of the three maps. This will create a new URL in your browsers adress bar. Just pick it and send it to your friends. So easy :)
See all relations or just some Characters all in one view:
Get an overview about any happening in the world of Tolkien.
First you need to choose one of the 3 Ages. Now you are able to select the Timeline button that will open a dropdown of all the events that have occured there.
