As much hate as vibe-coding gets (and most of it is justified), it has also allowed all of us to vibe-code our thoughts to small single-page web apps very easily.
Shameless vibe-coded plugs for my own regular usage:
Yeah, for sure. Vibe coding has it's place, I think. It's the people who pretend to build production-ready systems that are just hollow shells that give it a bad name. It is what it is.
I vibe-coded this game and I take pride in it: https://frasermarlow.github.io/vibe-star-chase/
Arda was supposed to be drastically changed after the First Age. This map is from the Second/Third Ages. Do the events from the First Age map currently into what is shown? Do some have to be excluded?
Well I included 13 Silmarillion events, but most are actually Second Age events that map perfectly fine. Three of them are First age so it's a bit fudgy.
The project has no Beleriand events... they literally cannot be placed because Beleriand sank beneath the sea after the War of Wrath.
Cuiviénen it tricky. The Sea of Helcar where it sat was reshaped when Morgoth's strongholds were taken out, so that is approximate.
Would love to make age-appropriate (ha ha) maps, but I only had this one to work from.
Good question. Check out Reddit - that is where I found the original. I understand it was made for the movies but I have not been able to locate the exact source or a place to order it from.
This is awesome! Can you make the zoom in and out smoother? I have to pinch every single time to get to the next zoom level instead of continuously zooming as I pinch.
Honestly the hardest thing for this was getting the pins in the right place. I had Claude create a tool for me to get the location and have it correct placements. Even after a dozen 'pins' were on the map, it still had problems placing the next pin (relative to the ones it had). Claude has gotten better and honestly I had not figured out Claude in the browser when I built this.
Shameless vibe-coded plugs for my own regular usage:
1. https://llm-token-cost-calculator.pagey.site/
2. https://metrics-memory-usage.pagey.site/
Maybe when describing historical events you should also put the year (it is given only for some of them).
Anyway, very nice work! I think it's appropriate especially for casual fans (especially movie fans) to delve (sorry) deeper into the lore.