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Hey TheodenOfRohan thanks for replying. Well the Land of the Sun is Tolkien's term for the Land of the Rising Sun. In his notes and map, he states that the Land of the Sun is where the Sun rises and thus has the gates of morning. Something else, Tolkien viewed Rhun as Asia and many of the Orcs were considered to be Nazis.

So the Land of the Sun is Japan which is separate from the New Lands. The New Lands is an entirely new continent that forms after Numenor falls. The Land of the Sun does go under a drastic change, but the New Lands are the Americas.

Something else just to show that Tolkien intended for the Land of the Sun to be Japan. In Japan mythology, they have a spiritual group called aniur. The same name that Tolkien uses for the Valar and Maiar.

So all in all. I strongly feel that the Land of the Sun was Japan, Hawaii, Philippines, and other islands that broke apart when Numenor sank in the ocean. The New Lands were created specifically by Eru.

Tolkien based a lot of his stuff on events revolving around WW1 and WW2.