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Tags: <the-lord-of-the-rings><tolkiens-legendarium><map>
Title: Is there a map of Frodo's journey during the Lord of the Rings?
Question: Everybody loves the maps of Middle Earth. But has anyone ever plotted on the map of Middle Earth, Frodo's journey throughout the Lord of the Rings? Seeing as the book gives us a description of where he travels.   What about including some of the other characters? It would be interesting to see the extent of his journey. There are a few basic maps, but nothing very artistic or interesting.

Answers:
sents: text: Karen Wynn Fonstad's The Atlas of Middle Earth
text: This contains the map of Frodo's journey with all the key locations marked from the book.
text: Here is a sample picture of Frodo's journey towards Weathertop, each day is marked on the map.
text: It also contains Bilbo's journey from the Hobbit, with Frodo's overlaid in brown to show differences in route and time taken.
text: If memory serves other events including those from the Silmarillion such as Beren and Luthien's journey into Angband, the Westward migration of the various tribes of Men and the Host of the Valar coming East to finally deal with Morgoth.
text: As to whether these are artistic or interesting, this will be personal opinion
text: but I think they are very well drawn, with enough of the flavour of the maps that Tolkien drew.
text: Stylistically I think it compliments Tolkien's work and is a good visual aid when reading the books.
text: I have also found the information very interesting, and there is a lot of it too.
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/46719/Cearon O'Flynn
score: 44
sents: text: Take a look at The LotR Project
text: This is an online and interactive map of Middle Earth and my personal favorite.
text: It shows the route each major character took.
text: It also marks the location and dates of events that took place during the travels.
text: The website also contains a very, very detailed family tree if you're interested.
text: The project was made by a super fan who also went through all the notes J.R.R. Tolkien left behind.
text: Not just the published works.
text: (Will look for the source)
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/63615/Iarwain
score: 25
sents: text: Journeys of Frodo by Barbara Strachey.
text: I bought this book over 30 years ago when I was a young lad.
text: It plots Frodo's journey day by day as well as the other members of the company of the ring.
text: Lovely book for a Tolkien fan.
text: Each map contains the campsites, eating places, and various other stops that Frodo used on his journey to Mordor.
text: The book is now out of print so would have to be picked up second hand.
text: Here are some pictures of the maps
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/68494/Snaga
score: 21
sents: text: How about the official board game map?
text: The yellow dotted line marks Frodo's path.
text: I don't know where it stands as canon (higher than some fan-made, higher than all fan-made, utter baloney, etc.), but if you're looking for a single map with the whole journey and critical locations marked, this is your map.
text: Just ignore the arbitrary region markings.
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/33466/Jeutnarg
score: 3
sents: text: I had the same question whilst writing an essay where I thought it'd made a neat frame of reference, and then I found this absolutely wonderful interactive map, that allows you to plot pretty much every single path any single character takes throughout the trilogy (and the Hobbit, too), as well as look at timelines, events and a whole lot of other useful and just fun stuff.
text: Also, the map is absolutely stunning.
text: http://lotrproject.com/map/#zoom=3&lat=-1315.5&lon=1500&layers=BTTTTT
text: Oh, and also, it has a map of Beleriand, too.
text: http://lotrproject.com/map/beleriand/#zoom=3&lat=-758.33903&lon=1528.48291&layers=BTTTTTTTTTT Hope you enjoy playing around with these two :)
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/75147/Mr. Coffeelicious
score: 2

Summary of the answers:
Yes, Frodo's journey through Middle Earth has been mapped out, and one example of this is Karen Wynn Fonstad's "The Atlas of Middle Earth". This also contains other character's journey's, such as Bilbo and Beren. Other examples include The LotR Project, an online website, and "Journeys of Frodo" by Barbara Strachey.
There are a number of publications that give a detailed and well-illustrated view of the journeys, and relevant maps can also be seen online or on the official board game.