The enchanted islands and a bewildering shadow created the Shadowy Seas, which prevent mariners, mortal or immortal, from reaching the land by sea (by the Belegaer, the Great Sea which separated Middle-earth and Valinor. Those who so rebelled were not allowed back to Valinor for many years, as of the Hiding of Valinor, but in the end pity was taken on them when Middle-earth began to fade and pass into the age of Men, and the exiled Ñoldor were allowed to pass back to the Undying Lands of their own accord when they felt ready to do so.Īlso, for a time after the exile of the Ñoldor and before the ruin of Númenor, a long chain of small islands called the Enchanted Isles ran the full length of the east coast to the continent. In the beginning, the Ñoldor, tricked by the evil Vala Melkor passed this way to go back to Middle-earth, among those was Galadriel. In the extreme north-east, past the mountain range was the pass of Helcaraxë, a vast and treacherous ice sheet which in the beginning, before the War of Wrath, joined the two continents of Valinor and Middle-earth. The entire land of Valinor was surrounded on three sides (excluding the north which was instead protected by ices flows) by a huge mountain range called the Pelóri mountains. To the west of them stood the Two Trees of Valinor. ![]() In the north-east lay the Mansions of Manwë and Varda, the two most powerful Valar, also married. ![]() To the north of this were the Mansions of Aulë the smith Valar who was spouse to Yavanna. Estë and Lórien being husband and wife lived close together. To the east of the Halls of Mandos was the Isle of Estë, which was situated in the middle of the lake of Lorellin which in turn was situated to the north of the Gardens of Lórien (not to be confused with Lothlórien in Middle-earth) which was created by the same Valar, Lórien also known as Irmo, the Vala of dreams. Also living in the Halls of Mandos was his spouse Vairë the weaver, who wove the threads of time. Just south of the Halls of Nienna and to the north of the pastures there were the Halls of Mandos. Nienna, the lonely Vala of sorrow and endurance lived cut off in the far west of the island in the Halls of Nienna where she spent her days crying, looking out to sea. The forest was home to many creatures which Oromë could track and hunt. Oromë, the Vala of the hunt, lived in the Woods of Oromë to the north-east of the pastures. Yavanna, the Vala of nature, growth, and harvest, resided in the Pastures of Yavanna in the south of the island. The sea to its west was called Ekkaia, or the Encircling Sea it surrounded both Valinor and Middle-earth.Įach of the Valar had their own region of the land where they resided and altered things to their desire. The important island of Tol Eressëa was off its east coast. Two other cities were Alqualondë and Tirion, the respective homes of the Teleri and the Ñoldor. ![]() The major city of Valinor was Valmar, where the Vanyar and the Valar resided. ![]() Domains of the Valar in Valinor from The Atlas of Middle-earth
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