Dates

Established after the coming of the Eldar to Aman during the Years of the Trees

Location

Along the eastern shorelands of Aman

Race

Elves

Divisions

Eldar (Vanyar, Noldor and Teleri)

Culture

Eldar of the West

Settlements

Alqualondë, Tirion

Important peaks

Lay beneath the Pelóri

Passes

The Calacirya

Pronunciation

e'lveness (the word derives from 'elven', so all the vowel sounds should be pronounced)

Meaning

Probably 'land of the Elves'¹

Other names

Eldamar, Elendë, Elfinesse, Elvenhome, Elvenland, Ever-eve, Evereven

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Updated 23 August 2018
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Elvenesse

The lands of the Elves

Elvenesse in the West (somewhat conjectural)

A term whose meaning is not clearly defined, but which seems to refer to all the lands of the Elves, but especially those that lay in Aman, west of the Great Sea.

Notes

The '-nesse' ending comes from Old English naess, a word that usually means a promontory or headland, though it has a broader secondary meaning of 'ground, land'. That secondary meaning seems to be the one intended here (as it is, for example, in 'Westernesse', 'western lands'). In full, then, 'Elvenesse' probably means simply 'land of the Elves'.

Elvenesse

The lands of the Elves

Notes

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