It was indeed a beautiful country, full of pastures and forests. The scenery of Valinor is described very limited. However, the Numenorians disobeyed and invaded, causing it to be removed from the "circles of the world", and only those who the Valar permitted were able to sail there, and only by a narrow path across the Sea. The linked question, along with this question explains in more detail, but Aman used to be accessible by normal ships, however it was forbidden for non-elves and Vala/Maia to go there. In some ways, Aman(specifically Valinor) might could be compared to the Shire - the Shire for much of its history was unmarred by the outside world, but it couldn't compare with Valinor. We never really find out what he did there - it's probably sufficient to say he rested. As Tolkien notes, he could not find peace or rest in Middle-Earth, and needed a place that might could heal him. So he went both to a purgatory and to a reward, for a while: a period of reflection and peace and a gaining of a truer understanding of his position in littleness and in greatness, spent still in Time amid the natural beauty of 'Arda Unmarred', the Earth unspoiled by evil.Īlong with Bilbo, Gimli, and Sam (the other mortals who passed over the sea), Frodo died eventually. He would have eventually to 'pass away': no mortal could, or can, abide for ever on earth, or within Time. Instead, those who reached Valinor became known as Calaquendi, the "Elves of Light".Frodo was sent or allowed to pass over Sea to heal him – if that could be done, before he died. During the Great Journey some groups of the Teleri lingered behind in Middle-earth and never reached Aman, so for this reason they were called Úmanyar and along with the Avari they were considered Moriquendi, the "Elves of Darkness". The Quendi who refused to follow Oromë were called the Avari, 'the Unwillings'. He also renamed the three clans as Vanyar (Minyar), Ñoldor (Tatyar) and Teleri (Nelyar). The proposal was accepted by the totality of the Minyar, the half of the Tatyar and the majority of the Nelyar. Oromë called them Eldar, that means "People of the Stars", the Elves that chose to follow him, because when they awoke the stars were the only lights in the sky and for this reason they loved Varda and her creationsĪfter the capture of Melkor at the end of the siege of Utumno, Oromë came back to Cuiviénen in order to invite the Elves to travel with him to the Undying Lands. These Elves were brought to Utumno, and were believed to be twisted and mutilated into the first Orcs, who would become the most bitter enemy of the elven people.Īnd so it was that on one of his many journeys in the wilds of Middle-earth, Oromë came upon the Elves. When Elves would stray off alone, some were taken by Melkor or his agents. Soon developing spoken language, the first name they gave themselves was Quendi, or 'the ones who speak with voices'.Īlthough the first of the Ainur to discover the Elves was indeed Oromë, their initial discovery was by Melkor, who would send shadows and evil spirits to spy on them. Upon awakening the Elves heard the sound of falling water, and beheld the light of the stars, and were enamored of starlight ever after. The Elves awoke at Cuiviénen, the "Water of Awakening", in the far east of Middle-earth, in the starlight of the Sleep of Yavanna, before the creation of the Sun and Moon. Some of them reached Aman and they were called Amanyar, although others stayed behind in Middle-earth and they were called Úmanyar. The Eldar ( Quenya Tengwar: full spelling `VmE6 or vowel-abbreviated spelling `Vm6 IPA: singular Elda `VmE adjectival Eldarin `VmE7T5 or `Vm7T5 ), or Edhil ( Sindarin), are those Elves who accepted to leave Cuiviénen and undertake the Great Journey to reach Valinor.
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