The Atlas of Middle Earth

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The Tolkien Meta-FAQ – Summaries of common discussions about Tolkien and Middle-earth, from basic questions to expert debates.

Aman and Middle-earth were separated from each other by the Great Sea Belegaer, analogous to the Atlantic Ocean.Strider" "The Sickle [The Hobbits' name for the Plough or Great Bear] was swinging bright above the shoulders of Bree-hill. Isengard, also known as Angrenost (‘Iron Fortress’) in Sindarin, was one of the three major fortresses of Gondor, and held within it one of the realm’s Palantiri. The end of the Third Age marked the end of the dominion of the Elves and the beginning of the dominion of Men.

Discussion includes suggestions as to the geology that could explain various formations, and points that are contradictory between multiple accounts.T 21] Time from that point was measured using Valian Years, though the subsequent history of Arda was divided into three time periods using different years, known as the Years of the Lamps, the Years of the Trees and the Years of the Sun. The Ered Luin or Blue Mountains, also known as Ered Lindon, is the mountain range at the far west of Eriador. The Dwarves were said to have been made by the Vala Aulë, who offered to destroy them when Ilúvatar confronted him. Also notable are Unfinished Tales and the multiple volumes of The History of Middle-earth, which includes many incomplete stories and essays as well as numerous drafts of Tolkien's Middle-earth mythology, from the earliest forms down through the last writings of his life. Under the First Age, Fonstad places Belegost approximately 150 miles south of its sister-city of Nogrod in accordance with The Shaping of Middle-earth, where it would have been drowned by the formation of the Gulf of Lune following the War of Wrath.