Thread:Aramirtheranger/@comment-27097330-20160729224639/@comment-27097330-20160813165831

Maltalidenta Kwuitidherali wrote: Originally Quendya = Calaquendi found it Originally Sindarin = Númenorë, Gondor, etc. found it Originally English = (old) Rohan, (common tongue) Hobbits

99% of stuff was found by Númenorë, and probably about 1% of lands that were named as things not by their natives. Take Harad. "South" in Sindarin. Take Rhûn. "East" in Sindarin. Everything in Sindarin is quite literal, and probably about 99% of stuff is originally named in Sindarin. If my belief is correct that the land of of the sun is the other side of Valinor then it seems rather unlikely that the Numenoreans would have been the ones to discover and name it, as the Valar would not have let them come that close to Valinor.