Editing Middle Earth (section)

===Aman===
Known to mortals as "The Undying Lands," this is where the Valar live, and where elves go when they cross the sea or if they die and are revived but confined to a specific fortress here. Aman used to be connected to Middle Earth via a dangerous ice bridge known as the Helcaraxë, literally "grinding ice." After Númenor attempted to invade Aman (it's considered a big no-no for Mortals to try to enter) Ilúvatar separated Aman from Middle-Earth and turned the formerly flat Arda into a sphere; Elves can still travel there via the "straight road" but cannot return with a singular exception given to Glorfindel who had fallen in battle and went to the resurrected elf-quarantine but was allowed to return so that he could remain until the last Elves departed Middle Earth, and also so that he could give out the Witch-King cannot be killed by a man prophecy and to escort the wounded Frodo to Rivendell. Only a handful of mortals are known to have ever lived in Aman; the ring-bearers Frodo and Bilbo, and possibly Samwise Gamgee (who sailed after his wife's death and leaving the Red Book to his daughter and son-in-law) and Gimli the Dwarf (who went with Legolas after Aragorn died of old age, presumably along with the last lingering Elves including Glorfindel, at year 120 of the Fourth Age). It’s important to remember that Aman itself does not grant immortality, but instead is an unchanging land specifically intended for the immortal Elves, who outside of it, are susceptible to weariness and fading away due to the corruption of the world by Morgoth. As the Elves warned men, even without the Ban of the Valar, they would find that living in Aman would actually ''decrease'' their lifespan as they’d find it so unbearably unchanging that they’d wither away (presumably Tuor, and Frodo and friends didn’t have such an experience as they were there mainly to be healed, but they still would have passed on eventually).
*'''Valinor''' - The main kingdom of the Valar. Populated primarily by the Vanyar Elves, and was formerly home to the Two Trees of Light.
*'''Tirion''' - A large city built by the Noldor Elves in the mountain gap separating Valinor from the sea.
*'''Tol Eressëa''' - An island off the cost of Aman that had been used to ferry the Elves across the sea. The Falmari Elves settled down here.
*'''Lórien''': Not to be confused with Galadriel's kingdom Lothlórien; these are the gardens of the Valar tended to by Irmo and his wife Estë, and is a place of healing and rest. Elves and even Men may visit these gardens in their dreams, where they receive prophetic visions.
*'''Halls of Mandos'''- The aforementioned revived-elf quarantine place. Only two people were ever allowed to leave, Luthien; when she chose to be human and was granted a resurrection to live with her human love before dying as a human and going to the human afterlife; and Glorfindel on the condition that he return when the last Elves left after Aragorn's death early in the Fourth Age.
*'''Avathar'''- Between the mountains that barricade Aman and the sea, Avathar is a lightless valley where Ungoliant lived. This valley was unknown to the Elves, but Morgoth came here to recruit Ungoliant for the destruction of the Two Trees of Light.