![]() ![]() The Silmarillion III Quenta Silmarillion Chapter 3: "Of the Beginning of Days"Īfter the fall of Númenor and the Changing of the World, Aman was removed from the Circles of the World. Therefore they departed from Middle-earth and went to the Land of Aman, the westernmost of all lands upon the borders of the world The dwelling of the Valar upon Almaren 2 was utterly destroyed, and they had no abiding place upon the face of the Earth. AmanĪman was formerly the westernmost-continent of Arda: It's probably best to accept that Tolkien was not a cosmologist, and move on. We might make a distinction between "Arda" and "the Kingdom of Arda", but it's not clear that Tolkien makes such a distinction. History of Middle-earth X Morgoth's Ring Part 4: Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth Footnote 11 7): 'Arda Elvish name of Earth = our world. the list of names associated with the revision of the Quenta Silmarillion in 1951 (p. With the statement here that 'Physically Arda was what we should call the Solar System', and in the third paragraph of this Note that 'the principal part of Arda was the Earth (Imbar "The Habitation")', though 'loosely used Arda often seems to mean the Earth', cf. However, in History of Middle-earth Christopher Tolkien discusses some of his father's notes:Īgainst the opening sentences of Note 2 is written in the margin: 'Arda means Realm'. In The Silmarillion, for example, it seems to mean "the Earth":īut the other Ainur looked upon this habitation set within the vast spaces of the World, which the Elves call Arda, the EarthĪrda 'The Realm', name of the Earth as the Kingdom of Manwë Narratively, Arda is the setting for all of the Legendarium, after the Ainulindalë.Ĭosmologically, however, it is occasionally used to refer to two separate concepts: the Earth and our solar system 1. ArdaĪrda is a more confusing case, because Tolkien was not always cosmologically consistent with it. The Silmarillion has a section called "Index of Names", that confirms this:Įä The World, the material Universe Eä, meaning in Elvish 'It is' or 'Let it be', was the word of Ilúvatar when the World began its existence. And amid all the splendours of the World, its vast halls and spaces, and its wheeling fires, Ilúvatar chose a place for their habitation in the Deeps of Time and in the midst of the innumerable stars. ![]() Now the Children of Ilúvatar are Elves and Men, the Firstborn and the Followers. In modern cosmology, we might think of Eä as the Universe: And suddenly the Ainur saw afar off a light, as it were a cloud with a living heart of flame and they knew that this was no vision only, but that Ilúvatar had made a new thing: Eä, the World that Is. Therefore I say: Eä! Let these things Be! And I will send forth into the Void the Flame Imperishable, and it shall be at the heart of the World, and the World shall Be and those of you that will may go down into it. Then there was unrest among the Ainur but Ilúvatar called to them, and said: 'I know the desire of your minds that what ye have seen should verily be, not only in your thought, but even as ye yourselves are, and yet other. ![]() Literally, Eä is all of Creation it comprises everything that is physical about the world, and is so big that Tolkien sometimes simply refers to it as "the World" (with a capital W), or "The World that Is": To provide context, I'm going to define two other terms that aren't covered by the question. However, they do have precise geographic definitions. These terms are occasionally used interchangeably, because they have the same thematic meaning. ![]()
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