delightful Tolkien quote I stumbled into today:
“I wisely started with a map, and made the story fit (generally with meticulous care for distances). The other way about lands one in confusions and impossibilities, and in any case it is weary work to compose a map from a story.”
https://tolkienlibrary.com/press/1152-tolkien-writings-to-understand-rules-of-life.php
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