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     Ilurambar or world walls enclose the entire world.
These walls are like steel, like glass and ice, and the Children of the Earth are not given
even imagine how cold, hard and transparent they are. And
they cannot be seen or passed through except through the Door of Night.    
     Inside these walls is the sphere of the Earth: above, below and from all
To the sides of it is Vaiya, the Washing Ocean. But below
On land it is more like the sea, and above it it is more like air. In Vaia
Ulmo lives below the Earth.  There is Air above the Earth,
called Vista, it supports clouds and birds. His
the upper part is called Fanyamar or the House of Clouds, and
lower - Aiwenore or Bird Abode. But this air
lies only over Middle-earth and the Inner Sea, and its borders are
Mountains of Valinor in the West and the Walls of the Sun in the East. Therefore
clouds rarely appear in Valinor and mortal birds have no way beyond
the tops of its mountains. But in the North and South, where there is the most cold and
darkness, and where Middle-earth extends almost to the World
Sten, Vaia, Vista and Ilmen flow together and mix. 
     Ilmen is that air that is clean and permeated with light, although
cam and does not light up. Ilmen lies above Vista and is not very deep,
it is deepest in the West and in the East and thinnest in the South and
North.  The air of Valinor is Ilmen, but sometimes it goes there
Vista, especially in Elvenhome, part
which lies at the eastern foot of the mountains, and if Valinor is in the shadow and
this air is not purified by the light of the Blessed Land, it accepts
the shape of shadows and gray mists. Ilmen and Vista can mix,
for their nature is similar, but Ilmen is the air of the Gods, it is purified
the origin of the luminaries, because Varda paved the way in Ilmen
the stars, and later - the Sun and the Moon.                               
     Vista permeates everything and it is impossible to escape it, unless...
only for the servants of Manwe or those to whom he gives the opportunity
exist in Ilmen, or even in the upper layer of Vaiya, which is so
thin and cold. From Vista you can go down to Earth, from Ilmen
- to Valinor.  Now Valinor extends almost toVaiya,
which is narrowest in the East and West of the world and deepest in
South and North.  Therefore the western shores of Valinor are not far from
World Walls. There is an abyss that separates Valinor from Vaiya
and Ilmen fills it out. You can go down it from Ilmen, which
above the Earth to the edges lying below, and further - to the Roots of the Earth,
caves and potams that permeate the foundations of land and sea. There
is the abode of Ulmo.  From there flows the waters of Middle-earth. And
these waters consist of Ilmen, Vaiya and Ambar (Ambar - “Earth”), for
Ulmo mixes Ilmen and Vaiya and sends them up through the veins of the world
cleanse and refresh the seas and rivers, lakes and springs of the Earth. And by
flowing water keeps the memory of heights and depths, of wisdom
and the music of Ulmo and the brightness of the heavenly bodies.                     
     In the lands of Ulmo the stars are sometimes not visible and the Moon often wanders
there, inaccessible to view from Earth. But the Sun does not hesitate there. She
hastily passes underground so that the night does not lengthen and
evil grew stronger, the servants of Ulmo lead it through the lower layer of Vaiya and he
warms up and fills with life.   This is how days are measured
the passage of the Sun, sailing from East to West through the lower
Ilmen, eclipsing the stars.  And she passes over Middle-earth without
stops, closer to the South, then to the North, but not on a whim, but in
depending on the time of year.  And when she rises above the WallsThe sun is the dawn and when it descends beyond the Mountains of Valinor -
it's evening.                                                      
     But in Valinor the day passes differently than in Middle-earth. For there
camoe daylight - evening. Then the Sun goes down and rests
for a short time in the Blessed Land, lying on Vaiya’s chest. And
when she plunges into Vaiya, it becomes hotter and flares up
with a pinkish light, illuminating the country for a long time. But with her movement towards
To the East this light fades and Valinor remains illuminated only
stars - then the Gods mourn Laurelin most of all. At dawn
the darkness in Valinor is deep and the shadows of its mountains fall heavily on
abode of the Gods.  But the moon does not linger in Valinor and quickly
passes over him to plunge into the Ilmen Abyss, for he
pursues the Sun and occasionally emy manages to overtake her; then the flame
The sun covers him and his face turns black. However, it happens that
he comes to Valinor while the Sun has not yet left him, then
he goes down and meets his beloved, and Valinor
is filled with mixed gold and silver light - and the Gods
smile, remembering the mixed light of Laurelin, and Silpion in
old days.                                                     
     The plains of Valinor gradually descend to the foot of the mountains and
Its western coast lies at the level of the bottom of the inland seas.
Nearfrom there, as was said, the World Walls, and above the very
on the far western shore is Ando Lomen,
The Door of Night, piercing the Walls and opening into the Void. For peace
exists among Kuma, the Void, the Night without form and
time.  No one is able to cross the Abyss and the Vaiya belt and reach
that door, except for the great Valar. It was they who created the Door when
Melkor was defeated and thrown into the Outer Darkness, and the Guardian of that
Doors - Earendil.                                               
     Middle-earth lies in the middle of the world and consists of waters and land.
Its surface is equidistant from the upper and lower boundaries of the vaya.
Since ancient times, its structure was like this: the highest was Middle-earth in
center, then the Earth sank on both sides into wide depressions and
rose again to the East and West, and again fell to
the Abyss itself at its edges. The lowlands were filled with primeval
the waters and shores of these ancient seas were in the West - western
highlands and the edge of the western continent, and in the East -
eastern highlands and the edge of the eastern continent on the other
sides. But these coasts did not descend to the North and South and it is possible
it was possible to go overland from the Ilmen Abyss in the extreme South to the Abyss
Ilmen in the Far North. Thus the ancient seas lay in
depressions and waters did not flood them, neither eastern nor western
land.  OnIn the North and South the seas had no shores and opened
straight into the Abyss, where their waterfalls turned to ice from the cold,
ice bridges.  These bridges spanned the Ilmen Abyss, and the ice
extended further into Vaia all the way to the World Walls.                
     They say that the Valar, having come into the world, descended into
Middle-earth is right in the center of it, which is called Endor and
only Melkor descended to the far North. The Valars took part
sushi, blessed, placed it as an island in the Western Sea and
settled on it while they studied and created the world.
They also say that when they decided to create lamps
Melkor proposed to invent a new substance of unprecedented strength
and beauty for the columns under these lamps. He built two great
pillars to the south and north of Endor, but closer to the middle than to
To the abyss.  The gods placed lamps on the columns and for some time
time the Earth was flooded with light.                                         
     But the columns were a treacherous deception - Melkor sculpted them
from ice.  They melted and the lamps collapsed and died, and the light
them disappeared.  Melt water from the columns formed two small
inner seas to the south and north of Endor, dividing the land into
northern, central and southern. Then the Valar left their island
and went to the West, where they created the Greatmountains on
the hills beyond the Western Sea, and beyond them Valinor. This mountain
the chain is curved, so Valinor is widest in the middle part, where
the sea approaches the very mountains, and in the South and North these mountains
extend all the way to the Abyss. There lie those regions of the Overseas
of the West, that do not belong to Middle-earth and yet are outside
from the mountain wall. Those regions are gloomy and deserted. The one on
The North is called Eryman, and the one in the South is
Arvalin;  only narrow straits filled with ice,
separate them from Middle-earth.                                      
     To better protect Valinor, the Valar moved Middle-earth
so that it bent its middle part towards the East, and
the great Western Sea in the middle became wider than all the oceans of the Earth.
In the East the Earth is structured in the same way as in the West, but the Eastern
the sea, on the contrary, is already in the middle. Beyond it lie the Eastern Lands, o
which we know little about.  They are called the Lands of the Sun, a
the gigantic (albeit smaller than the Valinor) mountains there are called the Wall
Sun.  Only eagles soaring high in the sky can see them
far beyond the Eastern Sea.                                      
     When the Valars moved Middle-earth to the East,
four mountain ranges. They are called the Blue Mountains in the Northwest,
Red - in the North-East, Gray - in the South-West and Yellowin the Southeast.  Melkor built a fortress in the North and erected
there are the Northern Towers, their other name is the Iron Mountains. In the central
parts of Middle-earth rise the Mountains of the Winds, so named because of the wind,
coming from the East before sunrise.  Lies right there
Hildorien - the land between the mountains and the Eastern Sea,
where people first awakened.  And to the north, not far from the waters
Lake Kuivienen is located in Helkar, where
The elves were found by Opome.                                       
     But the symmetry of the ancient Earth was broken in the first Battle
Gods, when Valinor defeated Utumno - the stronghold
Melkor, and cam Melkor was captured and chained. Then the sea
Helkar (where the northern lamp was) remained an inland sea,
or a large lake, and the sea of Ringil (where the southern lamp was)
turned into a huge strait connecting Western and
Eastern Sea. And the Earth changed again in the second battle, when
Melkor was defeated again and the current ones after the era also changed it
face  But the greatest changes came when the
The First Concept and the Earth was rounded into a ball and cut off from
Valinor.  This happened, as history tells us, during
the campaign of the Nymenorians to the Land of the Gods. And since then names and memory o
lands and seas of antiquity are forgotten and lost forever.             



Ilya(Ilu) World                               
Ilurambar Walls of the World                        
Ramba Wall                             
Kuma (Kuma) Darkness, emptiness                     
Ava (Ava) External, external (Abakyma)      
Vaiya - Outer Ocean, or                
                               The Enveloping Ocean, or           
                               Washing Ocean                  

                               Home, womb. By nature      
                               similar to water, but less dense    
                               than air, surrounds the Earth.      
Ilmen (Ilmen) Sky, heaven                      

                               Place of light. Area above         
                               air, rarefied and          
                               more transparent than him. Only the stars   
                               The Moon and the Sun can fly       
                               here. Also called          
                               Tuhbe-Malle (Tinwe-Malle),      
 Street of Stars, or Elenarda        
                               (Elenarda), Starry Kingdom    
Vista AirClouds can fly here and      
                               birds. Its top layer is        
                               Fanyamar, or        
                               House of the Clouds, lower - Ivanore   
                               (Aiwenore), Bird Abode     
Barn (Ambar) Earth                             

                               Ambar-Endya -     
                               Srydizemie, its central      
                               part - Endor           
Ear (Ear) Sea                              

                               Water, sea. Roots of the Earth -        
 Mar-Talmar,        
                               or Talmar-Ambaren               
                               (Talmar-Ambaren)                
Ando (Ando) Door, gate                     
Lome Night                              

Ando-Lomen (Ando-Lomen) Door of Night through which was     
                              Melkor thrown out after the second     
                              wars of the gods.