Exciting... 

Is this the cloth map view from ingame?

If it is does this mean we can add names and stuff to place on the map?

Comparing it to the old map, I can see some changes, the most visible are the addition of the Northern Fence and the change of Yoren to "unknown".

Edit: Now I see that the other map comes from the Destiny's Embers book, so they may be from different epochs.

maybe lets first try these map

Is it just me, or does the "Unknown" area scream "something nasty will turn up here in the campaign"?

Here's a 1920x1080 (16:9) wallpaper I removed the text from and resized/cropped.

I've always hated promotional text in my wallpapers.

It wasn't inspired by Middle Earth nor do I think it's that similar to Arda (and I saw that post awhile back that showed a particular version of Arda (http://md.dndgamer.com/TOLKIEN/Arda.jpg)  -- which is not at all accurate incidentally, Numenor is shaped all wrong, the west was done very differently, and the rest is pure speculation of what the rest of the world looked like.

This is what Numenor looked like:

http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/n/numenor.html

Middle Earth: (the east)

http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/m/middleearth.html

and Arda: (the west)

http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/v/valinor.html

This is the most accurate map of Arda I could find:

Anyway, the map of Anthys (the part of Elemental we're concerned with) is a split between east and west with a natural barrier between them (water) with a half-way point (and island).  It's not the most original way to split two factions apart but it wasn't inspired by Middle Earth.

honestly it looks kinda like the alaska-russia "border" (if one can call it that) to me.

Ok Palin...

Actually, there are a couple surface similarities between the Elemental map and Arda -- specifically, as Arda appeared in the First Age before the Valar overthrew Morgoth:  Both continents were, like yours, joined by a land bridge at the very northern end(s), plus of course the large island in the middle of the sea (Numenor in Tolkien's world).  That's really all I was referring to; I'm aware the geography is otherwise very different between Tolkien's world and your own.    

By the by:  Does that island in the middle of the sea have a name?  I was just wondering.  

Gotcha.  Well I'd say it was about as good a way to split the factions as any, plus this way it's easy for the "casual" fan to understand.   

I do really like the map, by the way; it has a lot of character.  I do have just one other question, though:  It appears the Greater Skarps and Imperial Spine likely form a single mountain chain (that briefly goes underwater between the two continents).  I was curious as to whether that was deliberate, or if it just worked out that way? 

Necro threading.  I would like this map in game to be played.  Or at least a western continent version like the east we have.  Also, the unknown part of the map is Yoren.  Just telling bitches what they need to know.  And Polis isn't on this map either, it's at the sea near the river that flows from Athica.  And Umber is Athos...I'm rambling.  Ether way, I want more maps, as the premade ones are superior to the random ones.

This map came with the Book and was playable in WoM, and I played it's dick off (that means a lot).