Cubicle 7 has shared a look at Jared Blando's beautiful map of Middle Earth, included in the upcoming The One Ring – The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game.
I could tell it was one of Blando's maps as soon as I saw it. His style is something I like a lot, but the chief complaint against it is what @DWChancellor mentioned - they tend to be busy.
Really odd map. I wonder how it looks in person.
Highly detailed and contrasting regions in a few spots, lightly detail parchment style for most of the rest. Doesn't seem like it can quite decide between colorful, sketching, and cartoon. A lot of details are hard to read from being crammed together. And then these huge character sketches (relatively).
Might look great on a wall but on my screen is just looks... busy. But also empty.
Most of Middle-earth is pretty empty. IRC, there was a flood and plagues before the Hobbit in the past, so there is not much civilization. I know we tend to think of Middle-earth as this lush mostly filled out world, but when you see it on a map, it is kind of post civilization setting.
I don't think it makes that much sense to make Gondor so much greener than everywhere else.