Beyond the sea?

[The Saucepan Man]

Amarie, I never realised that map was drawn by Tolkien himself. I have exactly the same map as part of a series of maps in David Day's Illustrated Tolkien Encyclopedia showing the development of Arda from Creation through to the Fourth Age of the Sun. According to those maps, the Burnt Lands of the Sun become the Sunlands, which in turn eventually become North and South America. Another continent, called the Dark Lands, mysteriously appears in the Fourth Age and looks like it becomes either Australasia or Antarctica (or possibly both).

So, are those maps reliable then? I have never really been sure.