The Christian theme of good and light (from Valinor) opposing evil and dark (from Mordor) has also been discussed. Others have compared the account of the beautiful Elvish part of the Undying Lands to the Middle English poem Pearl, stating that the closest literary equivalents of Tolkien's descriptions of these lands are the imrama Celtic tales such as those about Saint Brendan from the early Middle Ages. They note, too, that a mortal's stay in Valinor is only temporary, not conferring immortality, just as in Dante's Paradiso, the Earthly Paradise is only a preparation for the Celestial Paradise that is above. Scholars have described the similarity of Tolkien's myth of the attempt of Númenor to capture Aman to the biblical Tower of Babel and the ancient Greek Atlantis, and the resulting destruction in both cases. Exceptions were made for the surviving bearers of the One Ring: Bilbo and Frodo Baggins and Sam Gamgee, who dwelt there for a time, and the dwarf Gimli. However, only immortal beings were generally allowed to reside there. It included Eldamar, the land of the Elves, who as immortals were permitted to live in Valinor.Īman was known somewhat misleadingly as 'the Undying Lands', but the land itself does not cause mortals to live forever. Tolkien's legendarium, the home of the immortal Valar on the continent of Aman, far to the west of Middle-earth he used the name Aman mainly to mean Valinor.

Valinor ( Quenya : Land of the Valar) or the Blessed Realms is a fictional location in J. On the west of The Great Sea, far to the West of Middle-earth The Undying Lands, Eressëa, The Deathless Lands, The Blessed Realm, The Uttermost West, Aman

Realms of Tolkien by J.R.R. Tolkien