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No Valinor is definitely not America. The Americas is what becomes the New Lands. Also, allegory is a more of a hidden message that is conveyed--the map that JRR drew and the published works are not really hidden. So I wouldn't say that the Land of the Sun is allegory at all.

But let's break it down--the west of middle earth is like europe, the east or Rhun is definitely based off of asia (like our world), Harad and the South are based off of the Middle East and Africa (even the Hither Lands look almost identical to Africa), and finally I would ask, if all of these correspond to certain cultures and peoples in Tolkien's work--why wouldn't we use the same formula when discussing the Dark Lands, Lands of the Sun, or New Lands? As all of those would correspond with Australia/Antartica, Japan/Phillipines/Hawaii/other Islands, and the Americas respectively.

There is more evidence in Tolkien's work that this is the way things are--denying it and saying no it is not doesn't change the fact that this is what Tolkien did in his published manuscript.

But let's go with your theory, which is what? What do you consider these places to be? Valinor was removed from the world and in its place came the New Lands. The Quenta Silmarillion states this. The reason I go with these theories is because it was already tested several times in Tolkien's work and there is some evidence to it.