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Description	Christopher Tolkien's contour map of Gondor and Mordor, for The Return of the King, based on his father's detailed design on graphpaper
Author or copyright owner	Christopher Tolkien
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Original publication: The Return of the King Immediate source: own scan of Tolkien Maker of Middle-earth by Catherine McIlwaine, 2018
Date of publication	1955
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Tolkien's maps
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	Show the result of J. R. R. Tolkien and his son's close collaboration to illustrate the book with a map that accurately reflected his graph paper design for the closing stages of The Return of the King
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1)	This specific map and its construction is discussed in the text.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	The image is cropped and greatly reduced from the original. It is used only in this article, where it is the only example of a finished map from The Lord of the Rings, and the only instance of the product of a collaboration between Tolkien father and son.
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	The map was published over 60 years ago. The owner has had ample time to exploit it, and the map is now widely available in a variety of media.
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