The Alps, hand-drawn in Tolkien's style
Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1dgewxc/the_alps_handdrawn_by_myself_in_tolkiens_style/
"Come on boys, they're not that big!” - some Carthaginian guy on an horse.
I knew it! Barad-dûr is Tolkien's metaphor for Turin. Which puts Rohan in France, the dwarves in Switzerland-Austria and the Shire in Wales.
Elephant wtf-toots can be hard in the distance.
It would be so cool to be able to generate these with AI models from OSM data. I did some experiments with Stable Diffusion and they turned out okay, but you have to decide between accuracy and style.