{"id":379,"date":"2026-06-07T17:27:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T17:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/3c-art.nl\/?page_id=379"},"modified":"2026-06-07T17:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T17:39:17","slug":"middle-earth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/3c-art.nl\/index.php\/middle-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Middle Earth<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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I think I made this over the course of 2 or 3 years when I was early 20s. It was so much work and I got bored over it. But Tolkien fan as I am, I had to finish it at some point. <\/h5>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The Shire<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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I first user waterpaint to colour the paper and then deliberately made stains on it, to make it look older. I even wanted to burn the sides, but decided not to do that…<\/p>

Then the endless process of dippping your dip pen in the ink and drawing 3 trees or 2 hills began…<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Of course the map has all the important places of the books, from the Shire, to the Gates of Moria and from Edoras to Mordor.<\/p>

It was a lot of work, but I’m still a huge Tolkien fan, so I still think it’s cool to have a handmade map of Middle Earth.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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There is only 1 think about this work that still bothers me to this day. I think I started to sign work with 3C, but if you look well enough you’ll spot the mistake. Instead a 3 I’ve draws an E. And since it’s ink, there’s not much I can do about it… So I decided to just leave it as it is…<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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