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Hi Monks! I just got your message on my 1978 map. Yup, I was heavily-influenced by Tolkein's map of Middle Earth. I drew things pretty much the way he did, only less skillfully. I'm still using this map today, although the locus of my current campaign is one map south as well as the map west of the one south, if you can follow my tortured explanation. :-D
