Rhûn the Great or East of East was the name given to the great and unknown eastern lands of Middle-earth by the Free Peoples of the Westlands. Rhûn the Great, as a subcontinent, included the far plains of Palisor or Central Middle-earth, the great Northern Peninsula, the Lands of the Dawn in the Farthest East, the Great Plateau, and the Southeastlands with Nikkea, Balizar, and the Shelf-lands.