Well, i really carefully read Lost Tales and Silmarillion when i made my maps for this wiki and gave lots of thought on the placement of everything, even when not descriped en detail in the books i tried to conject.

I was hoping for a less vague answer regarding the linguistics that may have gone into deciding the names of places and what basis you pulled to actually create the names for places. From what I have researched, a lot of the places (as far as I can tell) don't have roots in Quenya or Sindarin, so I was more curious to how you would build that up rather than the positioning and placement of additional locations. Thankyou for answering!!!

Hmm... probably because in LT Tolkien still used Goldogrin and i did not want to change the names from the books, even if they are outdated forms nowadays. If i would have to explain them inverse i'd say they are some weird dialect of Tol Eressëa that descends from Noldoric Sindarin.

But if i myself would make up new names and translations... to be honest i would prefer Quenya.

If I may. Valinor's geography is rather vague yes but after adding the Lost Tales info and expand the logic of the few places we know then many regions/locations appear and just need to be randomly placed...

For example we know that Vaire had lesser halls of the dead and those should be somewhere near the major one's of Mandos, Likewise Este could have lesser gardens than Lorien's somewhere near Lorien (as she loves the pool of Lorellin) and those gardens would most possibly have mainly healing herbs as she is a healer so the name could contain the word Asea for healing herb.

Another thing to ake into account is Valarin,,, many names in Valinor are adapted Valarin names (Taniquetil, Avathar, Ezellohar ect) so it is only logical that there are regions containing other such words (nasar, tulka and ulban as recorded in adapted Vanyarin and ithir sebeth ullu and rusur/urus from Valarin) like for example Ulbanduine (blue river), rusurondo (vaulted hall of fire for say a forge of Aule) ect.

In the same note the old rejected names like Murmuran and Ulmonan could be "explained" and used as Quenya adaptions of older valarin words

Interesting points.I had always thought of Vaire's Halls as a part of Mandos, i mentioned Este's pools in Lórien. From neo-valarin i stayed away so far... but i agree that many rejected old Quenya forms in Aman could be explained as adapted Valarin.

There are definitely some issues w/ some of the reused, or older dialects, (primarily that 'Ulban' is additionally used in some cases as the word for monster) but I agree that It is a very useful technique. Bringing up old names like Murmuran and Kortirion have been my favorite's to incorporate back into the map especially in giving each Valar there own name dwelling unlike the 7 or so "lore accurate" Halls we are given in the final editions.

I love the idea of Este having a smaller garden as she is the Vala of healing, though I did always link her dwelling with Irmo in Murmuran primarily due to the breakdown of the name being "sleep / moon" (or atleast something close to that since only like 100 words are set in stone), being a place of rest and ultimately healing. The comment of Este's dwelling being near to Irmo confuses me though, since she is referenced to rest of the Isle of Este on Lorellin.

I might send my map (if it decides to load in). I would love if you guys wanted to pick it apart and comment on it. In the process of expanding and finalizing stuff for my Tol Eressea map and ultimately coming up with additional town/village names that link to the location/residence while not sounding terrible as we know there are the additional settlements in the fields to the west of Calacirya, the Vanya settlement under Ilmarin and more around the place for the population of Moriquendi Elves that came from Middle Earth before the 4th Age (Wood Elves in the Woods of Orome etc).

Looks really good i think.

I like this map. Sadly, you will find that there are a lot of holes in new locations like the Dark Lands and New Lands. All we have is tidbits of info to draw upon. I think this wiki overall stays as close to the canon as possible.

Pretty much the ONLY thing on your map i fou d inconsistant with the Writings is the location of river Sirnumen/Hiril, but that is all, everything else is within the range of interpretation of what JRRT wrote...