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A hand-painted 3D map of Middle-earth with every road of the quest drawn from the Shire to Mordor, and golden markers on each place

The Lord of the Rings · A map you can explore

Fellowship
Journey

Follow the Ring from Bag End to Mount Doom.
Then fly down into the places you know by heart.

Actual gameplay · Every road of the quest, from the Shire to Mordor

See it in motion

Watch
the trailer.

Thirty seconds, captured in the game.

An atlas of the Third Age

The whole quest,
on one map.

Unroll a hand-painted map of Middle-earth, raised into real mountains, forests and rivers. Press play and the Journey of the Ring draws itself across it, day by day, from Bag End in September to the fires of Mount Doom in March.

Watch the Fellowship break at Amon Hen, then follow every road after it: Frodo and Sam into Mordor, the Three Hunters, Merry and Pippin, and Gandalf the White.

Free to playBrowser or downloadNine places to exploreNothing to install
Actual gameplay: the map on 4 March 3019, with the roads splitting after Amon Hen and the Journey of the Ring panel listing every companyThe Journey of the Ring, 4 March 3019

Six roads.
One Ring.

The Journey of the Ring panel replays the quest in order. Scrub to any day to see where everyone was, or click a company’s name to show or hide its road.

  • Six companies, each with its own road
  • 28 big moments, like Weathertop and Helm’s Deep
  • Golden markers with the story of every place

Three ways to explore

Read it, replay it
or fly right in.

Hovering the golden Rivendell marker on the 3D map, with its card open: the Last Homely House, where the Fellowship was formedThe map

Read
the map.

Drag to pan, turn and zoom across a hand-painted Middle-earth raised into real mountains, forests and rivers. Hover a golden marker to read about the place.

Click a marker to travel there.

The Journey of the Ring mid-replay: the Fellowship’s road crossing the Misty Mountains toward Moria, with the companies listed in the panelThe journey

Replay
the quest.

Press play and the roads draw themselves across the map, day by day. The panel keeps the date and tells you what just happened.

Six companies. Twenty-eight moments.

The Council Ring at Rivendell, a circle of seats inside a white colonnade among orange autumn treesThe places

Fly down
into it.

Click a marker and the map drops you into the place itself, in 3D. Orbit it, zoom in close, take the guided tour or press F and fly anywhere you like.

Nine places, each with its own tour.

Inside Rivendell: the Last Homely House on its terraces with waterfalls, the place’s story card at top left and its views listed along the bottom

Every place,
in detail.

Each place opens with its story and a row of views along the bottom: Bag End and the Party Field, the Council of Elrond, Balin’s tomb, the Golden Hall, the Court of the Fountain and more.

Double-click anything to glide over to it. Press T for a guided tour, or Esc to fly back to the map.

Day by day

Follow the road
as it happens.

Scrub through the journey and the map keeps pace. The hobbits leave the Shire, the Fellowship crosses the mountains, and at Amon Hen the road splits in three.

The map near the start of the journey: the hobbits’ road leaving the Shire, heading east
One map. From the Shire to the fire.

Nine places to explore

Go on.
Have a look around.

From the round green door of Bag End to the Chambers of Fire, every golden marker on the map opens into a place you can explore in 3D.

Bag End: the round green door set into the Hill, with a stone wall, a white gate and a path down the slope

The Shire.

Bag End at the top of the Hill, Bagshot Row, the Party Field, the Mill and the Green Dragon inn at Bywater.

The terraces and colonnades of Rivendell among orange and gold autumn trees

Rivendell.

Elrond’s house on its terraces above the gorge, with colonnades, pools, waterfalls and golden autumn trees.

The Chamber of Mazarbul in Moria: Balin’s tomb lit by a single shaft of light in the dark

The Mines of Moria.

The pillared halls of the Dwarrowdelf, Balin’s tomb in its shaft of light and the Bridge of Khazad-dûm over the abyss.

The horned black summit of Orthanc, with the ring of Isengard and its fires below

Isengard.

The black tower of Orthanc inside its ring of stone, the green valley long gone to pits, furnaces and smoke.

Meduseld, the Golden Hall of Rohan, with its gold roof among the thatched halls of Edoras

Edoras.

Meduseld, the Golden Hall, on its hill above the plains, with the gate below and the white barrows of the kings.

Minas Tirith: seven white circles of walls rising up the side of the mountain to the white tower

Minas Tirith.

Seven white walls climbing the mountain, split by the great prow of rock, with the Tower of Ecthelion at the top.

The broken bridge of Osgiliath across the Anduin, with ruined streets on both banks

Osgiliath.

The ruined capital astride the Anduin, its great bridge broken and the Dome of Stars still standing.

Barad-dûr with the burning Eye at its top and Mount Doom smoking in the distance under a red sky

Barad-dûr.

The Dark Tower above the plain of Gorgoroth, the Eye burning at the top and Mount Doom smoking beyond.

Mount Doom with rivers of lava running down its sides under a red sky

Mount Doom.

Rivers of fire down the cone, and Sauron’s Road winding up to the Chambers of Fire and the Crack of Doom.

Every screenshot on this page is captured in the game. Select one for a closer look.

The end of the road

All the way
to the fire.

The last road runs east into Mordor, past the Dark Tower and up the slopes of Orodruin. Stand beneath the Eye, then climb to the summit and look down into the fire.

The Eye of Sauron, wreathed in flame between the horns of Barad-dûr, its beam sweeping across Mordor
The Eye of Sauron
The summit of Mount Doom, with lava pouring from the crater and smoke rising into a red sky
The summit of Orodruin

Bag End · Rivendell · Moria · Amon Hen · Mount DoomActual gameplay

Always there to go back to

A map
to keep.

Fellowship Journey is a single HTML file. Play it right here in your browser, or download a copy and it’s there whenever you want to walk the road again.

Drag
Pan & orbit
Space
Play the journey
T
Guided tour
F
Free flight
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The Party Field in the Shire: Bilbo’s striped pavilion and the Party Tree strung with lights
The Party Field, Hobbiton
Minas Tirith from above, its seven white circles spiralling up to the Tower of Ecthelion
The seven circles of Minas Tirith

The map is unrolled

Your journey
starts here.

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