Thread:The Second Age Server/@comment-68.102.5.123-20160727230815/@comment-29095449-20160727231648

Númenor is somewhat as south as it should be, if you look at various maps, although it would be a bit more south than we have placed it. It would be much closer to Aman, that is true and yes - those islands were actually there. Now the reason we have placed Númenor where it is (it's actually also smaller than it should be, but that is due to performance reasons) is because we wanted it closer to where the "real" stuff would happen as well as people actually have to sail to the island, which would take like 5½ years to do, if Númenor actually was as close to Aman as it should be, so we had to move it closer to land. The map we made is not in the real proportions with continents like Aman not being in the size it actually would have been, but again, we did that due to performance as well as gameplay experience-related reasons.

I am going to link you a picture of where Númenor somewhat should be. This map also illustrates the many small islands near Tol Eressëa. You can find the map here