Aman is a location in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, also known as the Undying Lands or Blessed Realm. Tolkien's Legendarium (ISBN 0-313-30530-7 is a collection of scholarly essays edited by Verlyn Flieger and Carl F In J R R Tolkien 's Fantasy legendarium, the Ainur (singular Ainu) are spirits who are direct representatives of Eru Ilúvatar ( In J R R Tolkien 's Legendarium, an Elf is an individual member of one of the races that inhabit the lands of Arda. Valinor (meaning Land of the Valar) is a Fictional location from J In J R R Tolkien 's Fictional world of Middle-earth, Eldamar Bay is the region of Aman east of the Pelóri Mountains where the Minor places in Arda#Place Name -->;Place name description1 Further description prefix with: once Minor places in Arda#Place Name -->;Place name description1 Further description prefix with: once Background Manwë was (with his brother Melkor ie Morgoth the greatest of the Ainur and the one that best understood the will of Eru. In JRR Tolkien 's Middle-earth Legendarium, the Years of the Trees are one of the three great time-periods of Arda. Tolkien's Legendarium (ISBN 0-313-30530-7 is a collection of scholarly essays edited by Verlyn Flieger and Carl F It was a continent that lay to the west of Middle-earth across the great ocean Belegaer, although it lay in another dimension during the time of The Lord of the Rings. Middle-earth refers to the fictional lands where most of the stories of author J In the fiction of J R R Tolkien, Belegaer, the Great Sea or the Sundering Seas, is the sea of Arda that is west of Middle-earth The Lord of the Rings is an epic It is the home of the Valar, and three kindreds of Elves: the Vanyar, some of the Noldor, and some of the Teleri. The Valar (singular Vala) are characters in J R R Tolkien 's legendarium. In the works of J R R Tolkien, the Vanyar are the fairest and most noble of the High Elves. In the works of J R R Tolkien, the Noldor (meaning those with knowledge) were those of the second clan of the Elves, the Tatyar, who came In the works of J R R Tolkien, the Teleri (meaning Those who come last, singular Teler) were the third of the Elf clans who came to The (probably large) island of Tol Eressëa lies just off the eastern shore. In early versions of J R R Tolkien 's Legendarium (see The History of Middle-earth) Tol Eressëa was an island visited by the Anglo-Saxon

Upon the destruction of Almaren in very ancient times, the Valar fled to Aman, and there established the realm of Valinor. Minor places in Arda#Place Name -->;Place name description1 Further description prefix with: once Valinor (meaning Land of the Valar) is a Fictional location from J Seeking to isolate themselves, they raised a great mountain fence, called the Pelóri, on the eastern coast, and set the Enchanted Isles in the ocean to prevent travellers by sea from reaching Aman. Minor places in Arda#Place Name -->;Place name description1 Further description prefix with: once In the works of J R R Tolkien, the Enchanted Isles or Magic Isles are an Archipelago in Belegaer, east of Tol Eressëa.

For reasons unknown, the Valar left two lands outside the wall of the Pelóri: Araman to the northeast and Avathar to the southeast. Ungoliant, an ancient being in the form of a great spider, had managed to escape notice in Avathar. Ungoliant is a fictional character in JRR Tolkien 's legendarium. When Melkor was released from his captivity, he fled to Avathar, scaled the mountains with the help of Ungoliant, and wrought destruction of great consequence in Aman. The name The name Morgoth is Sindarin, one of Tolkien's invented languages and means "Black Enemy" Bauglir is also Sindarin meaning Melkor, or Morgoth as he is also called, persuaded Ungoliant to kill the Two Trees of Valinor and take from them what energy she could to quench her hunger, as Ungoliant (see also Shelob) was always hungry. The name The name Morgoth is Sindarin, one of Tolkien's invented languages and means "Black Enemy" Bauglir is also Sindarin meaning "The Two Trees" is also a poem of Yeats' 1893 The Rose. Literature Shelob was an "evil thing in Spider form" living high in the Ephel Dúath mountains that border Mordor; the “last child of

The first mortal man to succeed in navigating to and passing the Isles of Enchantment was Eärendil, who came to Valinor to seek the aid of the Valar against Melkor, now called Morgoth. This article deals with the Half-elven Eärendil For the Gondorian king see Eärendil of Gondor. His quest was successful, the Valar went to war again, and also decided to remove the Isles.

Soon after this, the great island of Númenor was raised out of Belegaer, close to the shores of Aman, and the Three Houses of the Edain were brought to live there. Númenor (ˈnuːmɛnɔɹ is a Fictional place in J R R Tolkien 's writings which the author intended to be an allusion to the legendary Atlantis. Adan redirects here Adan is also the name of a governorate of Yemen. Henceforth, they were called the Dúnedain, or Men of the West, and were blessed with many gifts by the Valar and the Elves of Tol Eressëa. In J R R Tolkien 's Legendarium, the Dúnedain (singular Dúnadan, "man of the west" were a race of Men descended from The Valar feared — rightly — that the Númenóreans would seek to enter Aman to gain immortality (even though a mortal in Aman remains mortal, due to it not being their final destination), so they forbade them from sailing west of sight of the westernmost promontory of Númenor. In time, and not without some corrupting help from Sauron, the Númenóreans violated the Ban of the Valar, and sailed to Aman with a great army under the command of Ar-Pharazôn the Golden. Sauron (ˈsaʊrɒn Quenya: /sawrɔn/ literal meaning "Abhorred") is the title character and the principal Antagonist of the Fantasy In the Fictional universe of J R R Tolkien, Ar-Pharazôn the Golden (–3319 r Eru collapsed a part of the Pelóri on this army, trapping it but not killing it. It is said that the army still lives underneath the pile of rock.

In light of this new development, Eru removed Aman from the spheres of the world. The earth, at this time, was flat. They split it in two, and made the half containing Middle-earth round, so that a mariner sailing west along Eärendil's route would simply emerge in the far east. For the Elves, however, they crafted a Straight Road that peels away from the curvature of the earth and passes to the now-alien land of Aman. Minor places in Arda#Place Name -->;Place name description1 Further description prefix with: once A very few non-Elves are known to have passed along this road, including Frodo Baggins, Bilbo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, and Gimli. Bilbo Baggins is the protagonist of The Hobbit and also makes an appearance in The Lord of the Rings, two of the most well-known of Samwise Gamgee, later known as Samwise Gardner and commonly known as Sam, is a Fictional character in J Character overview Gimli was a Dwarf of Durin's Folk who volunteered to accompany Frodo Baggins as a member of the Fellowship of the Ring

References

• The Silmarillion
• Unfinished Tales
• The Lord of the Rings

External links

• Aman in the Encyclopedia of Arda