Tol Morwen, Beleriand, and Europe

[obloquy]

Great stuff on this Saxon Cross substack. In particular, his series of posts on Middle-Earth and maps of ice age Europe. This post is one in that series. Rockall: The Ruin of Beleriand, Hy Brasil, and the Grave of Turin Turambar. Sample:

I just had just re-read The Silmarillion and was scouring through it looking for more hints from Tolkien as to the real world locations of lands or landmarks of Beleriand.

And as I read, I came across this.

Of the isle of Tol Morwen, the final resting place of the hero Turin Turambar, and the location of the Stone of the Hapless, Tolkien writes this:

"It is told that a seer and harp-player of Brethil named Glirhuin made a song, saying that the Stone of the Hapless should not be defiled by Morgoth nor ever thrown down, not though the sea should drown all the land; as after indeed befell, and still Tol Morwen stands alone in the water beyond the new coasts that were made in the days of the wrath of the Valar".

Now, I had never even realized that in Middle-Earth there was a third island-remnant of Beleriand in addition to the larger two islands more normally seen on maps.

But this seemed an obvious hint that we should still be able to locate Tol Morwen in our modern day… assuming I was correct that the Professor was intentionally making these references to our real world and that Middle-Earth is literally just our own world in the ancient past.