Animated maps of fantasy worlds
These maps follow the journeys and wars of books and television series on a map of their own world. Two are set in Middle-earth: one follows The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings after Tolkien's books, with the dates of Appendix B, and the other follows the first two seasons of The Rings of Power. Two are set in Westeros: the wars of Game of Thrones, seasons 1 to 8, and the Dance of the Dragons from Fire & Blood. The fifth follows the Northern Wars of Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher books.
On most of them companies, armies and fleets are small pieces that slide along their routes from one dated stop to the next, often with a trail behind them. Coloured land shows which realm or side held it. Where a story gives few dates, the map reconstructs them and its description says how: Game of Thrones gives almost no dates, and Sapkowski never published a map, so the borders of the Witcher map are an interpretation.
All five are fan maps, for non-commercial use only.
5 maps
Middle-earth: from The Hobbit to the Grey Havens (TA 2941–3021)
The journeys and wars of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings on an ink map of Middle-earth, after Tolkien's books (not the films): Thorin and Company and the Battle of Five Armies (2941), the long years in between…
Second Age
The Rings of Power: Seasons 1–2 on a map of Middle-earth
Seasons 1 and 2 (2022, 2024) of Amazon's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power on an ink map of Middle-earth: Galadriel's hunt in the Forodwaith and her raft across the Sundering Seas with Halbrand, Númenor's fleet…
298–305 AC
The Wars of Game of Thrones, Seasons 1–8
The wars of HBO's Game of Thrones, seasons 1 to 8, told through the armies on the move: Robb Stark's march south and the Red Wedding, the five kings, the Ironborn in the North, Stannis at the Blackwater and in the snow…
The Dance of the Dragons, 129–131 AC
The Dance of the Dragons, the Targaryen civil war of George R.R. Martin's Fire & Blood: the Greens of King Aegon II (green) against the Blacks of Queen Rhaenyra (charcoal), 129–131 AC.
The Northern Wars of the Witcher Saga, 1239–1268
Thirty years in which the Nilfgaardian Empire swallows the south and twice crosses the Yaruga, after Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher books: Ebbing annexed in 1239, Emhyr var Emreis on the throne in 1257, the fall of Cintra…
Make your own animated map
Pick a region and two years, and watch the borders of that time move. You need no account to try it.
Create a map