“Meet me at the fountain in Caras Galadhon in Lothlórien, where the trees stand golden and wide. Since the expansion is no longer new, I’ll be the only other player there…”

Is the world real or imagined?

What happens when virtual worlds are abandoned?

Is there anthropogenic climate change also in our virtual worlds?

Meet Me At The Fountain In Caras Galadhon charts this and more in Atticus Review’s Cartography issue, with work by Camelia Caton-Garcia, Philip Bowne, Kalisha Buckhanon, Olivia Wolfgang-Smith, Steve Karas, and more!

Thank you so much to the editors for mapping this story in!

Check out Steve Karas’ story The House in the Pines! It’s beautiful!

(Image: Virtual Caras Galadhon at dawn)