Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26073467-20150518045234

After reading the other continents thread, I came up with an idea for a map of middle earth's eastern islands. I kept thinking about it, and now that I finally had the time to make it, here it is:

This map includes the darklands and sunlands; I believe the darklands are planned, but I don't know about the sunlands. These are some of my ideas about how the vaguely described continents can be presented:

The Darklands:

1. South Darklands: A packed ice and snow covered biome similar to forodwaith, is home to penguins, seals, and nothing else.

2. Darklands desert and bushlands: These biomes similar to the outback consist of red sand, bushes and cacti; similar to mesa. THe bushland biome(light yellow) contains some acacia, some grass, and eucaliptus. home to some marsupials.

3. Darklands highlands(Dark green): A mountainous biome with some tropical plants, similar to both the great dividing range in Austalia as well as some parts of Papau New Guinea.

4. Subtropical Darklands(Green): A biome in Eastern darklands which has a mix of forests and jungles, and is similar to harad jungle.

The Sunlands are a chain of islands east of middle earth, which have 3 biomes and 2 sub biomes.(and another which doesn't count)

Northern Sunlands(Dark blue-green): A cold, wooded biome similar to the taiga biome, has a mountainous sub-biome(lighter color)

Middle Sunlands(Light Blue-green): A mid-latitude, humid climate, contains many cherry trees and has a snow-capped highland sub-biome(Lighter color)

Tropical Sunlands(Dark Green): A tropical highland wich contains many jungle trees and fruit trees.

Easter-egg sunlands(Red): This biome does not appear on the map(except for this one), and does not have it's own biome. If you have a decent knowledge of geography you may recognize it as new zealand. This would consist of procedurally generated biomes from regular middle earth(Gondor, Mordor, Shire, Rohan, etc.) This is obviously a reference to new zealand being where the films were shot.

Thank you for reading, Remember that I'm not suggesting the sunlands and darklands, just ideas for the biomes and their placement. 