Ambar

(Q. 'home, world')

The World, having the sense of "habitation" for the Elves, rendered by Tolkien with the Greek term Oicumene which is another term for Earth and means 'home, habitation'. The term maybe was not synonym to Arda, since it referred properly to the mass of solid Earth, while Arda contained the upper airs and celestial bodies, according to the Elvish cosmology. Ambar was originally flat and below it there was a great expanse of rock and caves, till the {Fall of Númenor}? and the {Change of the World}? when it became round.


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