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Araman
North of Eldamar lay Araman (Outer Aman). Originally this area was not settled but the Noldor
passed through it on their return to Middle-earth. When Melkor and Ungoliant passed through
Araman the region consisted of "barren plains," and yet the Noldor were able to survive there for
the equivalent of 15-20 Years of the Sun, perhaps by fishing. It may be that trees grew there after
the rising of the sun, spreading north from the forests of Eldamar, or planted by the Eldar or
Valar.

After the First Age the Teleri built a tower for Elwing in far northern Araman, so they may have
spread up the coast lands.

THE SILMARILLION says the Noldor "came at length to the northern confines of the Guarded
Realm, upon the borders of the empty waste of Araman which were mountainous and cold." The
passage seems to imply that Araman stretched westward across Aman and that Valinor did not
extend very far to the north of the Calacirya.




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Near the Helcarax├л Araman became a cold and desolate land, afflicted by the cold fogs and ices
escaping from the Grinding Ice in the north. It was only in this region that the Noldor actually
began to suffer from the climate on their road into Exile. Fingolfin's host of Noldor actually
wandered through this region for a long time before they finally passed north and crossed the
Helcarax├л itself.

Avathar
South of Eldamar lay Avathar where we have heard only Ungoliant ever dwelt. After her
departure with Melkor there is no further mention of Avathar, but it may be that eventually the
webs of darkness she had woven there were destroyed and the region was claimed by the Elves.

Avathar was a very narrow strip of coast land (compared to Araman) and Ungoliant's valley was
far to the south of Eldamar, beyond Hyarmentir, which was the highest peak in the southern
Pelori and about even with the southernmost settled regions of Valinor.

Elenna (Numenor)
The island of Elenna, raised up by the Valar to be a home and refuge for those Edain who had
survived the Wars of Beleriand, was more than 500 miles long and 300 wide, but it was shaped
with five peninsulas. Karen Fonstad estimates the total land area to be about 167,000 square
miles.

For the sake of comparison, Elenna was (by her estimates) about 3 times the size of Rohan, 3/5
the size of Arnor, twice the size of Cardolan, and nearly 8 times the size of the Shire.

Uniquely among all the land-masses of Arda, Elenna was home to a single nation of people, the
Numenoreans. It was never politically divided or invaded. So the land is usually referred to as
Numenor, a later name that eventually referred more to the civilization of the Dunedain than to
the island itself.