![]() 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. If The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power does tell the whole history of the Second Age, we are bound to see Valinor and Aman being removed from Arda, just as the whole planet becomes round.Frodo was sent or allowed to pass over Sea to heal him – if that could be done, before he died. Elves, however, are still granted passage to Valinor through a secret path in which their boats keep moving forward on the horizon instead of following the curves of Arda. To prevent Men from ever trying to reach Valinor again, Ilúvatar bent the world, so it would become round, removing the continent of Aman and letting it float in the far west. To stop the threat of Men, Ilúvatar himself intervened, destroyed Númenor forces, sunk the entire kingdom under the sea, and reshaped the world. Deciding to conquer the Undying Lands and challenge the Valar themselves, the Men of Númenor sail towards Valinor, an act forbidden since the kingdom’s creation. Valinor, however, remains inaccessible to Men and other mortal creatures.Īt the end of the Second Age (and here we might have spoilers for much later on in the series), Sauron poisoned the Men of the island of Númenor with ideas of immortality. And after all the bloodshed of the Wars of the Jewels, the Elves treat the journey back to Valinor as the greatest honor bestowed upon one of their kind. Valinor remained separated from Middle-earth during the First and Second Age of Arda, serving as a refuge for Elves that wished to return home. However, once Melkor escapes, attacks Valinor, and steals the Silmarils, a great part of the Elves goes back to Middle-earth to fight the Dark Enemy. So, once Melkor was defeated and restrained, the Elves were invited to move to Aman, where they could enjoy the pleasures of Valinor, the lands of the Valar. ![]() There, they built great kingdoms, grew the Trees of Valinor, and turned the continent into a shelter for immortal beings that wanted to experience peace for all eternity. Long before even the First Age of Arda, the world was flat, with an apparently infinite sea extending in all directions and encircling the landmass formed by Middle-earth, the Western continent Aman, and other distant lands where no sentient life exists.Īfter their first battles against Melkor, an evil Valar who sought to twist creation to his will, the gods moved from Middle-earth to Aman. ![]() These emissaries are known as the Valar, divinities that can remodel the world to their will. In the beginning, the world was forged by emissaries of Ilúvatar, the One God, who were tasked to use their power to create everything that is. Middle-earth is but a single continent in a more expansive world named Arda.
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