Who doesn’t love a good map? Some maps, which already contain entire narratives of their own, have stuck with us for their imagined potential and concretization of some of our favorite fictional worlds. Here are some of our favorite literary & fictional maps.
The Lands Beyond from The Phantom Tollbooth by Jules Pfeiffer
Thorin’s map from The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Realm of Middle Earth from Lord of the Rings
Earthsea from The Earthsea Chronicles by Ursula K. LeGuin
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
H.P. Lovecraft’s Dreamlands (map by Jason Thompson)
from The Dark Tower series by Stephen King
Brobdingnag from Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Alternate Europe Map from the Leviathan Trilogy by Scott Westerfeld
from The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Kingdom of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Sea of Dreams from the “Brushwood Boy” by Rudyard Kipling
from Cruddy by Lynda Barry
David Lynch’s map of Twin Peaks
from Winnie-the-Pooh
Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
Dune by Frank Herbert
Lemuria
John Milton’s Hell (map by Eugene Cox)
Which of your favorites are we missing? Let us know in the comments!
