The book containing the map belonged to illustrator Pauline Baynes, who drew much of the famous maps of both Tolkien's Middle-earth and C.S. Lewis' Narnia.

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In fact, Tolkien was so pleased with Baynes’ work on the Middle-Earth map that he later introduced her to Lewis, and she went on to illustrate the Narnia books as well.

The map is as rare as they come—a working copy that documents the author’s collaboration with the first-ever illustrator of his books about Middle-earth, Pauline Baynes.

Blackwell Rare Books in the UK is offering items from Baynes' personal book collection in an upcoming sales catalog. That's how the shop discovered the map of Middle-earth with handwritten notes ...

Heavily annotated, the map demonstrates how painstakingly particular Tolkien was about the details of his imagined world, and offers new insight into the background of Middle Earth.