New lands

In the wake of the Akallabêth, new lands and seas were created after Eru Ilúvatar "cast back" the Empty Lands and Belegaer in the west, during the Change of the World in the Second Age.The Silmarillion, "Akallabêth: The Downfall of Númenor"
==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.The Atlas of Middle-earth, The Second Age, "Introduction"
==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".
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 Isle of 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 the world's curvature, some among them reported that îdô kâtha batîna lôkhî ("All roads are now bent").
==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.The Nature of Middle-earth, "Part Three. The World, its Lands, and its Inhabitants: XV. The Númenórean Catastrophe & End of "Physical" Aman", pg. 344
==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
==References==
Category:Continents
Category:Arda
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