https://tolkiengateway.net/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Visitant 2026-06-04T13:05:05Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.41.1 https://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Talk:Land_of_the_Sun&diff=391179 2024-06-04T11:11:34Z

<p>Visitant: /* The Land of the Sun */ Reply</p> <hr /> <div>== The Land of the Sun ==<br /> <br /> I’m very curious about this particular part of Tolkien’s world. Any thoughts on why it’s so obscure? And why didn’t the Valar settle East instead of West? [[User:Visitant|Visitant]] ([[User talk:Visitant|talk]]) 10:48, 4 June 2024 (UTC)<br /> <br /> :Hello and welcome [[User:Visitant|Visitant]]! Much of Tolkien's legendarium is obscure by design, to quote the man himself;<br /> :{{blockquote|Part of the attraction of The L.R. is, I think, due to the glimpses of a large history in the background : an attraction like that of viewing far off an unvisited island, or seeing the towers of a distant city gleaming in a sunlit mist. To go there is to destroy the magic, unless new unattainable vistas are again revealed.|[[J.R.R. Tolkien]], [[Letter 247]]}}<br /> :Much of the history of [[Middle-earth]] happens in the far North-west, or at least that is where the [[Loremasters]] lived and recorded it.<br /> :As for why the [[Valar]] didn't go East instead of West - no specific reason really, except that the island of [[Aman]] already existed in the far West and was perhaps the furthest most point from the strongholds of [[Melkor]].<br /> :Finally, whilst these questions are interesting and I enjoyed answering it (hopefully to your satisfaction), Tolkien Gateway is not the place for questions about the Legendarium. You are welcome to join our [[Tolkien_Gateway:Chat|Discord]] server which has a channel for such things - or Reddit or a plethora of other websites that facilitate questions such as yours. [[User:JR Snow|JR Snow]] ([[User talk:JR Snow|talk]]) 11:08, 4 June 2024 (UTC)<br /> ::Thank you! I’ll be sure to join the Discord server. [[User:Visitant|Visitant]] ([[User talk:Visitant|talk]]) 11:11, 4 June 2024 (UTC)</div>

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<p>Visitant: /* The Land of the Sun */ new section</p> <hr /> <div>== The Land of the Sun ==<br /> <br /> I’m very curious about this particular part of Tolkien’s world. Any thoughts on why it’s so obscure? And why didn’t the Valar settle East instead of West? [[User:Visitant|Visitant]] ([[User talk:Visitant|talk]]) 10:48, 4 June 2024 (UTC)</div>

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