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My allegory comment was in response to your statement that Tolkien based “a lot of his stuff on events revolving around WW1 and WW2.” This part is untrue. Tolkien himself denounced that idea. Yes, you are right, real-world geography and his religion did factor into his world building.

The Lands of the Sun were never meant to have any real-world equivalent. They were a place for the sun to rise from. That’s really all. They were never populated. I don’t see how they could be based of of a real world location and people. Just because his world is based off of our own doesn’t mean everything has to have a counterpart in the real world. You don’t consider Valinor to be America, do you? Of course not, as Valinor had no basis in our world, but in other mythologies. It’s the same thing with the Lands of the Sun.

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