![]() Besides that, he had maps that showed the rest of Middle Earth it's just that the events of both The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings take place in the west, at least partly because it was closer to the Blessed Realm and NĂºmenor and because that was where the Kingdoms of the Noldor and of Thingol were. That conception became less clear as time went on so that some believe that by his death Tolkien no longer intended Middle Earth to be in any way related to the real world.Tolkien had set out to create a mythology for Europe and especially England (the available myths, such as Camelot (which is really French/Welsh) and Beowulf (which is Anglo-Saxon and set in Scandinavia), being alien to the modern English culture) and thus, in the context of the fantasy, Middle-earth is supposed to be western Europe as it was in the extremely distant past. The Lord of the Rings could have started this phenomenon.There is mention of an island nation beyond Xing, however, and the larger map of the world briefly glimpsed in episode 64 of Brotherhood showcases a small amount of ocean touching upon Aerugo, the nation to the south and east of Amestris, thus making the Fullmetal World a bit more of a right-justified map (an even briefer glimpse of a chalk drawing of the world is glimpsed in the flashback to King Bradley's childhood, showing continents similar to Earth's with Europe, Africa and Asia kind of merging a bit around the Middle East, which is likely where Amestris and its fellow nations are located) Amestris is landlocked and surrounded by lots of much larger countries. Entirely ignored in Fullmetal Alchemist, despite being set in what is obviously a European analog.Inverted in Naruto, where the ocean is on the east side of the map, likely because its world is based generally on feudal Japan (where the ocean is mostly to the east).In The Familiar of Zero, the political geography is a blatant magical analog of Medieval Europe, so this is naturally the case.Invoked in Altina the Sword Princess, which is essentially a fictional analog of 18th-19th Century Europe.
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