Tol Morwen, Beleriand, and Europe

[Huinesoron]

Originally Posted by Mithadan

Two other islands remained after the drowning of Beleriand following the War of Wrath. The peak of Himring was one, identified in Unfinished Tales. The second, Mentioned in HoME, is Tol Fuin, a fragment of Dorthonion or Taur-nu-Fuin.

Faroe and Iceland respectively, on the Saxon Cross map. (Iceland in particular is hard not to see as a match.)

Apropos my statement that "you can't trust the maps", Aragorn actually says as much: "I don’t know if the Road has ever been measured in miles beyond the Forsaken Inn, a day’s journey east of Bree. Some say it is so far, and some say otherwise. It is a strange road, and folk are glad to reach their journey’s end, whether the time is long or short." An in-universe interpretation of the map is that it was compiled from multiple sources (either by Bilbo or a later contributor to the Red Book), and that where the measurements didn't exist, they just sort of guessed.

hS