Minor Places in Arda - L

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Land of the Sun

Also called the Sun-Lands, this is an empty land east of Middle-earth where the Sun rises at dawn. Nothing is known of its geography except that there was a curve-shaped mountain range called the Wall of the Sun that corresponds to the Pelóri Mountains of Aman to the far west. The highest peak of the Wall of the Sun is Kalorme, which is an eastern counterpart to Taniquetil. The Gates of Morning, through which the Sun enters Arda are situated here.

In the Ambarkanta, this region is called the Dark land of the Sun.

The term should not be confused with "Sunlands", the Hobbit name for Harad (as seen in The Two Towers). In the game Middle-earth Role Playing by Iron Crown Enterprises, a Broken Sindarin name for the land — Romenor (Easternesse) — was invented.