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Nienna's land. He is not said to dwell outside Valinor, and he may have governed the western
regions of the land, for his halls grew constantly, making room for more and more "spirits".

Orom├л the hunter dwelt in the woodlands of Valinor, but Tolkien does not precisely place them.
They were in the southern regions, ending somewhere near Hyarmentir.

Probably the dwelling of Tulkas and Nessa (Orom├л's sister) was close by Orom├л's forests
because she loved to run through the woods, leading deer in her wake.

The region of Lorien probably lay close to Mandos. Irmo, Lord of Lorien, was Namo's brother.
Their sister was Nienna, so Lorien may have lain in western Valinor as well. In the midst of
Lorien was a great lake, Lorellin. The shores of the lake were forested and the land was filled
with gardens and fountains.




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 Essays On Middle-earth

The Halls of Manw├л and Varda upon Taniquetil were the easternmost dwelling of the Valar in
Aman. Many Maiar (and later some Vanyar) settled on the slopes of Taniquetil to be close to
Manw├л and Varda.

Valimar lay in a plain in the center of the land. Its eastern gate opened upon a green hill or
mound, Ezellohar, where Yavanna planted the Two Trees, Telperion and Laurelin. Telperion was
white. Laurelin was golden and it produced a golden dew that Varda collected into lakes
throughout Valinor. Mahanaxar, the Ring of Doom, lay between the city and Ezellohar.

The Halls of Aul├л were said to be in the very midst of Valinor, which implies the center region.
Since he was associated with mining and the earth he must have raised hills or mountains there.

Perhaps Valinor was divided in the following way:

The southernmost region of Valinor appears to have been empty and only partially lit by the Two
Trees. This was the region overlooked by Hyarmentir, the tallest mountain in the southern Pelori.
Just north of that region lay the woods of Orom├л, and to the west stood the gardens of Yavanna.
Lorien must have extended northward from Yavanna's land.

North of Orom├л's woods lay the plain of Valimar, and beyond that region lay the Halls of Aul├л.
Mandos was west of Valimar and Aul├л's lands, while Taniquetil lay to the east of Valimar, and
the mountain's southern slopes faced toward Tirion upon Tuna.

Note: Karen Wynn Fonstad offers a different placement of the regions of the Valar, but for
reasons I won't go into here, I disagree with her interpretations of the texts.

Eldamar
Eldamar was the home of the Eldar. It consisted of a valley in the middle region of the Pelori
where the hill named Tuna rose up and the lands to the east of the Pelori which lay close to the
Bay of Eldamar. The valley was the Calacirya (Cleft of Light) which the Valar created when