The Lay of Rust and Rime (Lore)

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Lore

The 'Lay of Rust and Rime is a series of episodic content taking place soon after the storyline of Eryn Lasgalen and the Dale-lands.
The first episode was released on March 14, 2018. The second half began on June 6, 2018.

It began with Upate 22: Strongholds of the North

The Lay of Rust and Rime: The First Verse - Original deed (Update 22)

Dramatis Personae

the will of Sauron could not compel her, and he bade Karazgar imprison her.
o her frozen hordes, Hrímil is the last remnant of the Great Enemy.
Mordath - The Mordath (Sindarin for Black-abyss/hole/pit) is a landmark within Dor Amarth on the Plateau of Gorgoroth.

The Uttermost West

A name for the continent in the far western sea of Belegaer, in the distant West of the World, beyond the Enchanted Isles and the Shadowy Seas, where lay Aman and the realm of Valinor, kingdom of the Valar. Also known as the Undying Lands, this continent was once part of Arda (the Earth), however even during the First Age these were difficult regions to reach, because the Valar had filled the seas eastward of their realm with enchantments and shadows.
When Men were settled on Númenor the Valar explicitly forbade them from sailing into the Uttermost West - the so-called Ban of the Valar - and it was the breaking of this Ban that led to the Downfall of Númenor. In the Second Age when Ar-Pharazôn, king of Númenor, attempted to sail there with his armada, Aman was removed from the circles of the world by Eru Ilúvatar.
Henceforth, Aman existed outside the bounds of Arda, so that the Uttermost West could never be reached by mortal mariners except by special grace, and could only be reached by Elves whose magical ships could take the "Straight Road" out of Arda. The choice was given to Elves to leave Middle-earth and return to this paradise they had once known in ancient times. As the world darkened during the War of the Ring in the Third Age, many Elves took part in this migration, leaving Middle-earth forever.[1]
The Undying Lands of Aman encompassed the realm of Valinor, the Pelóri mountains, the Enchanted Isles, the wastelands of Araman and Avanthar, and the Elf havens and cities of Eldamar, Tol Eressëa, Tirion, and Alqualondë.[2]
The Undying Lands were likely thus called like that because immortals dwelled in them, not because they granted immortality.[3]

References

  1. ↑ https://www.glyphweb.com/arda/u/uttermostwest.php
  2. ↑ https://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Aman
  3. ↑ https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Aman


Other

Oromë

Oromë was the Great Huntsman and Horseman of the Valar. In ancient days, he was the Vala who came most often to Middle-earth to hunt the monsters of Melkor.
He fought against Morgoth (Melkor) in the First Age. His vassal, the Huntsman, can be encountered in a secret glade in Dunland.
Béma was the name used by the Northmen for Oromë.
The Sindar in Middle-earth had never crossed the Sea to Valinor, and so had names for only a few of the Valar.
One was very familiar to them, however: the Huntsman of the Valar who had found them, newly awakened, by the shores of Cuiviénen.
In those ancient days the Eldar gave him a name that was intended to mirror the sound of his great hunting horn, the Valaróma.
As the languages of the Elves diverged, this name became Oromë in Quenya, but to the Sindar in Middle-earth this Vala was known as Araw.
Legend said that Araw had brought extraordinary beasts to Middle-earth in ancient times, including the ancestors of the mearas of Rohan.
To the east in Rhûn a kind of giant oxen could be found that were also said to have originated with the Huntsman, and so they were known as the Kine of Araw.
  • For more information see:
Oromë (Tolkien Gateway)
Araw (Encyclopedia of Arda)
Béma (Encyclopedia of Arda)
Valar (Encyclopedia of Arda)
Northmen (Tolkien Gateway)
Horn of Boromir (Encyclopedia of Arda)
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