A bit unrelated, but one of the rarest pieces for Tolkien's collectors has been put for sale recently

https://www.tomwayling.co.uk/product-page/songs-for-the-phil...

Friendly advice: this is wrong way to sell fantasy maps to nerds. The link shows some animation (which actually feels a bit annoying cause I can't focus on any particular detail), and lowres pics of maps itself (which can't prove the quality of work), and some useless text. Instead it'd be way better to show a few highres fragments.

Funny, I found this last night: https://www.ardacraft.me/

Beautiful work, I love fantasy cartography. Someday I actually want to make some maps of my own, I was thinking of ASOIAF. A slightly off-topic question, are these types of maps legal to sell from copyright point of view? I understand that this is quite a niche product, so maybe I'm overthinking it, but do these count as derivative works ?

odd, I'd rather have Tolkienistic maps of the Earth :)