Tolkien commissioned Pauline Baynes, who learned mapmaking in the Ministry of Defence during the Second World War, to create maps of his fictional land, Middle Earth: her delicate elven script proclaimed place names, tree-dotted forests and sharp-peaked mountain ranges giving depth to the scenery, and a selection of inserts illustrated some of the architecture, characters, and creatures.
Artwork for Neil Young's latest album, "Greendale," for example, was released on CD, DVD and a Web site, but is unified by a central image, an illustrated map of the fictional California town described in the songs.
Here producers pored over a map of a fictional farm and its environs that will be the epicenter for the latest adventures of a group of survivors in an American South overrun by cannibalistic ghouls.
The Game of Thrones opening shows the various locations featured in the series on a three-dimensional map of the fictional continent Westeros.
The envelope contained a detailed journal of Prof. Abner Ravenwood, Indy's mentor, along with photographs, currency and maps — all fictional, of course.
A map of Crusoe's fictional voyages is here from 1719, when the book was published.
This will exit you from the Garage, and show you a map of Redview County, the fictional location where the game's story is set.
Stereotyping is a kind of fictional abuse".
