Re: Concartography (was: Unsolicited abuse)

On Thu, 13 May 1999, JOEL MATTHEW PEARSON wrote:

> > Gary Shannon wrote:
> >
> > Me too.  In fact, I have a roughly-drawn, periodically revised, map of
> > the Continent (the one continent on Terra Nova).  I wonder if many other
> > conlangers/conculturers were the same way?
>
> I started drawing maps several years before I began conlanging.  Like
> my early conlanging, my early concartography was heavily influenced
> by Tolkien.  Most of my maps from that period have the distinct style
> of Tolkien's maps, or those drawn by his son Christopher for later
> editions of the books.
>
        This is my experience exactly.  One of the first things I did
after reading _The Hobbit_ was to draw elaborate maps of far-off imaginary
continents.  Most of my early conlang efforts were actually just attempts
to make up meanings for the nonsense place names I wrote on the maps.  It
seems as if conlanging and concartography go hand in hand.

Adam
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