Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-33157907-20180614081313/@comment-26172435-20180616035056

1) IF Valinor is ever added, I don't think it will ever be added in a similar manner as the Dark Lands would. Valinor is way harder to reach and would best be added as a separate dimension, only unlockable through a special routine/quest/process. That is definitely a different topic imo as the original poster here is proposing to add the Sunlands as part of this dimension, which could make sense IF one could assume the original conception of that 'continent' coukd etill fit the later adapted lore, see 2).

2) The Sunlands were originally conceived as being directly east of the Palisor, separated from Middle-earth by a sea, just as Valinor. In late, leading versions of the Legendarium, the mountain range directly east of the Palisor has become the Red Mountains and the concept of a 'Sunlands' continent has only been vaguely kept alive, and become physically more distant. The Dark Lands however, have gotten a much more prominent physical location and can be conceived as being a part of Arda in a similar way as the present continent we see on the mods world map. Even though there is also hardly any further information on what The Dark Lands continent would look like, it would make way more sense from a gameplay/canon-lore perspective to add that continent before the even vaguer Sunlands. Moreover, from that later, leading lore perspective, the Sunlands could even be interpreted as a continent lying both to the east and west of Middle-earth, which would offer other inconveniences when trying to fit that in the gameplay. Finally, expanding the map/world of the Middle-earth dimension must be meaningful in some way. And I think even addition of The Dark Lands is likely to be not meaningful enough to justify its impact on code and (server!) gameplay worlds. I hope that clarifies my view.