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the bewilderment of the mapmaker

the bewilderment of the mapmaker

Karen Wynn Fonstad, Pauline Baynes and Barbara Remington

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Jun 13, 2025
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A Woman to Know profiles once-forgotten women from history. Paid subscribers — like y’all!!! — get access to the subscriber-exclusive Friday editions and decade-long archive. 💌


J.R.R Tolkien dreamed up the universe of The Lord of the Rings. As the world he created expanded and unfurled, three different women dedicated their artistic lives to mapping Middle-Earth.

This edition of the newsletter is dedicated to my dad and my uncles, the people who first introduced me to Middle-Earth.

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