The artist (of course) fell in love with The Lord of the Rings books when he was 11 or so. “To start his maps, Bell says that he works from an open source Ordnance Survey map, and begins drawing by hand. ‘I try to emulate his typeface as closely as possible, but have modified his mountains in an effort to develop a little bit of my own style.’ He adds in additional details, such as forests, Hobbit holes, towers, and castles.”