Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-208.101.161.94-20160827025034/@comment-28813058-20180531120614

Moran half valar wrote: Well I think many of us are in agreement with the notion that Native Americans such as Mayans, Aztecs, Incas, Navajos, Eskimos, etc. would make up the majority of the New Lands. But let us not forget that Numenorians went there, and there were most likely natural Spirits of Arda on the continent. Creatures like Tom Bombadil, Badger-Brock, or the Nameless. They had to exist here when the world was flat and disc shaped. Being magical they had more of a chance to survive and let us not forget that many of the said tribes had mythologies that could very well relate to the Spirits of Arda.

Also, though I am sure no one cares by now--I feel that the Land of the Sun is based off of Japan, and the New Lands are a continent that has sprung up from Valinor's departure. Tolkien had an idea that Middle-earth would evolve into our world, so that Harad was Africa, most of the Northwest would become Europe, I guess Rhun would be Asia and Russia, and the Sun-lands would be the Americas. It actually makes sense if you shift it a bit.