Posted: May 03, 2000 at 12:42:45: by Michael Martinez
: Looking at Tolkien`s drawing of Lake Town, and attempting to
: guess the number of houses it contains, it seems extremely
: small for a town - especially if one remembers that there`s a
: watery "market square" in the middle. When I looked in
: Fonstad`s atlas, I saw a suggestion that its population
: couldn`t really be more than four hundred, and that the men who
: followed bard to the lake were a hundred at most.[snip] Fonstad is a terrible source of information when it comes to estimating numbers. In fact, in looking at the picture I get the impression of a town of several thousand people. The perspective is a little skewed. And they did have farms on the lake shore.
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