This was a big project. Lots of study of the Atlas of Middle Earth. I learned a lot about what is actually going on.
If anyone wants the metadata I generated about the paths of all the characters, I can provide that. I don’t know what people might want to use it for, but I’m happy to give it away.
I can see how this would be one of those projects that’s never quite finished. The fox, maybe Bill the pony…
As someone who really loves spiders, I am pretty tickled to see Shelob as a jumping spider, just sitting in her lair while all the action happens around her.
I pulled out my atlas again last night since it’s been a while and I’ve got to say, I think your video version was a lot more helpful to me in making connections between the various parties. The books and movies are always focused on one party at a time, so I have always tended to think of them that way. I have a very distinct memory of being 11 or 12, getting to the end of the The Two Towers where Shelob has Frodo, jumping right into The Return of the King, and nearly launching the book across the room when I found the story had gone back to Pippin and Gandalf.