Bought the deluxe Lord of the Rings atlas, the Shire borders are straight up wrong

I dropped $45 on that big fancy Middle-earth atlas last month and on page 32 the Shire river system is drawn running north when the book text clearly says it flows south to the Brandywine. How does a map that expensive get a basic river direction flipped when the source material is right there in the same book? Has anyone else caught a geography error like this in an officially licensed map product?

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alice44524d ago

Oh boy, here we go again. Honestly, does a flipped river on page 32 really ruin the whole book? I get that you paid for accuracy, but maps this size are bound to have a slip or two, especially when the artist had to squeeze an entire region onto one page. The text still tells you which way it flows, and the atlas is still 99% useful for following the actual story. Maybe just jot a note in the margin and move on, because I doubt Tolkien himself would lose sleep over a directional arrow.