Valmar

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'''Valmar''' was the city of many bells in the heart of [[Valinor]] where many of the [[Valar]] and [[Maiar]] dwelt. It lied on the [[Girdle of Arda]] (Equator) in the east-central part of the Plain of Valinor, west of [[Taniquetil]].

The [[Two Trees of Valinor]] grew nearby on the mound of [[Ezellohar]]. It is said that the houses in Valmar had roofs of gold and their floors silver and their doors were of polished bronze; and that they were lifted with spells and their stones were bound with magic.

== Etymology ==
The name '''Valmar''' means "dwelling of the Valar" (from [[Vala]] and [[-mbar|mar]] = "dwelling").

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Valinor

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| formed = The departure of the Valar from [[Middle-earth]]
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'''Valinor''' is the realm of the [[Valar]] in central [[Aman]]. [[Aman]] refers refers to the whole continent, while Valinor properly refers to the inhabited lands by Valar and the Elves.

Valinor is the place to which the Valar moved after being driven from [[Almaren]] by [[Morgoth]].

==Description==
Valinor is encircled by the [[Pelóri]] mountains raised by the Valar to defend from Melkor.

Its major city was [[Valmar]], where the [[Vanyar]] and the [[Valar]] reside. Two other cities are [[Alqualondë]] and [[Tirion]], the respective homes of the [[Teleri]] and the [[Noldor]]. It also has an island, [[Tol Eressëa]], just off its east coast. The sea to the west of the island was called [[Ekkaia]], the encircling sea which surrounded both Valinor and [[Middle-earth]].

Each of the Valar had their own region of the land where they resided and altered things to their desire.
*[[Yavanna]], the Vala of nature, growth, and harvest, resided in the [[Pastures of Yavanna]] in the south of the island.
*[[Oromë]], the Vala of the hunt, lived in the [[Woods of Oromë]] to the north-east of the pastures. The forest was home to many creatures which Oromë could track and hunt.
*[[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. Just south of the Halls of Nienna and to the north of the pastures there were the [[Halls of Mandos]].
*[[Mandos]], the brother of Nienna, was the Vala of the afterlife. All inhabitants of [[Arda]] went to the Halls of Mandos should they happen to die, mortals and immortals alike although it was said that in death as in life, they were separated. Also living in the Halls of Mandos was his spouse [[Vaire]] the weaver, who wove the threads of time.
*To the east of the Halls of Mandos was the Isle of [[Estë]], which was situated in the middle of the lake of [[Lórellin]]
*To the south were situated the [[Gardens of Lórien]] also known as [[Irmo]], the Vala of dreams. Estë and Lórien being husband and wife lived close together.
*To the north of this were the Mansions of [[Aulë]] the smith Vala who was spouse to Yavanna.
*In the north-east lay the Mansions of [[Manwë]] and [[Varda]], the two most powerful Valar.

To the west of them stood the mound [[Ezellohar]] with the [[Two Trees of Valinor]], [[Telperion]] and [[Laurelin]].

After the destruction of [[Númenor]], the [[Undying Lands]] were removed from [[Arda]] so that [[Men]] could not reach them and only the Elves could go there by the [[Straight Road]] and in ships capable of passing out of the Spheres of the earth. By special permission of the Valar, the [[Hobbits]] [[Frodo Baggins]], [[Bilbo Baggins]] were permitted to go to Valinor. They were followed by [[Samwise Gamgee]] and [[Gimli]] the [[Dwarves|Dwarf]] who were perhaps also permitted.

==Etymology==
Valinor (archaic Valinórë) is [[Quenya]] meaning "Land of Valar". There is also the name [[Valandor]] of roughly the same meaning.

The terms Ever-eve or Evereven also referred to Valinor.
In [[Hobbit]] lore, the mythical West was known as [[Faery]].

== Inspiration ==
It has been suggested that the concept is mainly based on the legend of Faery of western mythology, as indicated by the hobbitish name.

Furthermore, it seems to have been based on ghost and heavenly islands of ancient and medieval legends: Avalon, Hy Brasil, the Blessed Isles, the Elysian Fields, were mythical lands envisioned by the ancient peoples to be far into the western ocean. The legend somehow survived the Middle-Ages with [[Saint Brendan]]'s Island

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