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What about The Hobbit series? Or Elric Moorcock series? Or even the Wit'ch series?
Thomas Covenant, from what i remember, wasn't very descriptive of cities/lands, but then again, its been a long time since I read them.
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Barring letting the cartographer choose his/her own inspiration you could pick a more widely read work such as The Hobbit, mentioned above, or The Lord of the Rings. I'm pretty sure most folks on here will have read those. I've read a lot of sci-fi but very little fantasy myself...Hobbit, LotR, Elric, and that's about it (yeah, I'm missing out but I haven't been all that impressed with most fantasy authors I've read).
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I have a confession I actually read those books before I read the Lotr It was in fact one of the first fantasy series I had ever read. So I think that makes me partial to it.
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It looks like this one isn't going so well but while it's a good background for making some maps it would probably work best as fanart.
Also, remember while many of the people here are avid readers of fantasy there are a good number who are just into maps. Now if this was "Make a map based on a book", I think it would go quite differently. It may just be a bit too specific.
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