New lands

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"'īdō kātha batīna lōkhī ("All roads are now bent")"

—Mariners discovering the Round World^[1]

In the wake of the Akallabêth, new lands and seas were created after Eru Ilúvatar "cast back" the Empty Lands east of Middle-earth and Belegaer in the west during the Change of the World in the Second Age.^[2]

Description

The shape and size of these lands is not clarified in the Akallabêth, but since mariners were able to sail further west returning to their beginning, it is possible that these lands were very large islands of a sort.^[3]

History

After Númenor was destroyed by Eru Ilúvatar because of the deeds of its king, the world was changed and made into a round sphere. The spirituality of Aman was removed from the accessible circles of the world and the seas were bent so that no Man could never again find the Undying Lands. In the place of Aman, new lands and seas emerged in the west after the Empty Lands and Belegaer were "cast back".^[2]

Sometime after the Akallabêth before the end of the Second Age or near the beginning of the early Third Age, the new lands were discovered by the great mariners of the Dúnedain living in Middle-earth who, yearning for the west, sailed in the sea to the west searching for the Meneltarma as it was said in legend that the summit, the Hallow of Eru, became an island risen from the sea from which the sight of the Undying Lands could be descried. While the Hollow of Eru was never found and many mariners did not sail far, some of them journeyed far enough and came upon new lands and seas that they discovered were very much like the old ones where they were mortal and could not live forever. It is untold whether these mariners returned to Middle-earth afterwards, but the mariners "that sailed farthest" circumnavigated Arda until they reached Rhûn, and thus upon discovering that they could circumnavigate the world, some among them reported that the Straight Road no longer physically existed.^[2]

Legacy

The new lands may have consisted of the physical landmass of Aman while the Valar and the Calaquendi spiritually left the world. The physical landmass remained to eventually become the Americas in the later Ages of Awakening.^[4]

Translations

Foreign Language	Translated name
Afrikaans	Nuwe Lande
Albanian	Tokat e Reja
Amharic	አዲስ መሬቶች
Arabic	اراضي جديدة
Armenian	Նոր հողեր
Assamese	নতুন ভূমি
Azerbaijani	Yeni Torpaqlar
Basque	Lur berriak
Belarusian Cyrillic	Новыя землі
Bengali	নতুন জমি
Bosnian	Nove Zemlje
Bulgarian Cyrillic	Нови земи
Burmese	နယူးနိုင်ငံများ
Cambodian	ដីថ្មី
Catalan	Noves Terres
Cebuano	Bag-o nga mga yuta
Chinese	新的土地
Corsican	Novu Terreni
Croatian	Nove zemlje
Czech	Nové Země
Danish	Det Nye Kontinent (efter Númenors fald)
Dutch	Nieuwe Gebieden
Esperanto	Novaj Teroj
Estonian	Uued riigid
Filipino	Mga bagong bansa
Finnish	Uusia Maita
French	Nouvelles Terres
Frisian	Nije Lannen (Western)
Galician	Novas Terras
Georgian	ახალი მიწები
German	Neue Lande / Neue Länder
Greek	Νέες χώρες
Gujarati	નવી જમીનો
Haiti Creole	Tè Nouvo
Hausa	Sabon Asashe
Hebrew	שטחים חדשים
Hindi	नई देशों
Hungarian	Új Földeket
Hmong	Tshiab pawg neeg thaj av
Icelandic	Ný Lendir
Indonesian	Tanah-tanah yang baru
Irish Gaelic	Tailte Nua
Italian	Nuove Terre
Japanese	新しい土地
Javanese	Bantala Anyar
Kazakh	Жаңа жерлерді (Cyrillic) Jaña jerlerdi (Latin)
Kannada	ಹೊಸ ಭೂಮಿಗಳು
Korean	새로운 땅
Kurdish	زەوییە نوێیەکان (Sorani) Welatên nû (Kurmanji)
Kyrgyz Cyrillic	Жаңы жерлер
Laotian	ທີ່ດິນໃຫມ່
Latin	Novum Terris
Latvian	Jaunās Zemes
Lithuanian	Naujų Žemių
Luxembourgish	Neie Lännereien
Macedonian Cyrillic	Нови земји
Malagasy	Tany Vaovao
Malayalam	പുതിയ ഭൂമികൾ
Malaysian	Tanah-tanah baru
Maltese	Artijiet Ġodda
Marathi	नवीन जमिनी
Mongolian Cyrillic	Нью нутаг
Nepalese	नयाँ भूमिहरू
Norwegian	Nye Land
Pashto	نوي هیوادونه
Persian	سرزمین های جدید
Polish	Nowe Ziemie
Portuguese	Novas Terras
Punjabi	ਨਵੀਆਂ ਜ਼ਮੀਨਾਂ
Romanian	Noi Terenuri
Russian	Новые Земли
Samoan	Niu atunuu
Scottish Gaelic	Dùthchannan ùra
Serbian	Нове земље (Cyrillic) Nove zemlje (Latin)
Sesotho	Linaha tse ncha
Sindhi	نيون زمينون
Sinhalese	අලුත් ඉඩම්
Slovak	Nové Pozemky
Slovenian	Novih Dežel
Somali	Dalalkan oo Cusub
Spanish	Nuevas Tierras
Sundanese	Lemahna Anyar
Swedish	Nya Länder
Tajik Cyrillic	Давлатҳои нав
Tamil	புதிய நிலங்கள்
Tatar	Яңа җирләр
Telugu	కొత్త భూములు
Thai	ดินแดนใหม่
Turkish	Yeni Topraklar
Turkmen	Täze Ýerler
Urdu	نئے ممالک
Uzbek	Янги эрлар (Cyrillic) Yangi erlar (Latin)
Vietnamese	Vùng đất mới
Welsh	Tiroedd Newydd
Xhosa	Amazwe amatsha
Yiddish	ניו לענדער
Yoruba	Awọn orilẹ-ede titun
Zulu	Amazwe amasha

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