On Lord of the Rings, what is at the edge of Middle Earth?

Question: On Lord of the Rings, what is at the edge of Middle Earth!?

I!.E!. Look on the maps on Battle for Middle Earth 2, and in the books, Middle Earth's boundaries seem to stop, and there is land after that!.!.!.What is the land!? I!.e, Khand, South-east of Mordor, suddenly stops, but land is beyond it, same in the North (Lonely Mountain, etc) and in the east in Rhun!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

You need to get out more! Although I think you will find that beyond Khand is the Great Desert, Far Harad and finally Taur Moredain!.

Here's a map to help you;
http://www!.softwave!.info/incanus/ennorat!.!.!.

!.!.!.damn, I need to get out more! ;-)Www@QuestionHome@Com

Tolkien didn't say

Middle earth was supposed to be our own earth, but in remote prehistory!.

The shapes of all the lands and seas were supposed to have changed somewhat from that time to ours!.

The Shire was supposed to be located, roughly somewhere in the vicinity of where France and England are today!. My guess is he intended it to be smack in the middle of where the English Channel is now!.

There may have been continents of some kind in the vicinity of the current Americas, but again he doesn't say!.

The lands beyond the seas to the west, were not the Americas!. They weren't even part of the planet really!. They were isolated from the rest of middle earth in some undefined magical way, so that only some elvish ships could actually get there!.

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Middle-Earth is, according to Tolkien, "much like ours," but not another planet or anything!. It was a world, but not necessarily round, or square, or anything!. Just what regions he wrote, and that was it!. So, I'm not sure, but it could be that Tolkien didn't label it and just left it alone!. Which means it doesn't exist!.
LuthienT
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