<P> In the northern inner foothills of the Pelóri, hundreds of miles north of Valmar was Fëanor's city of Formenos, built upon his banishment from Tirion . </P> <P> In the extreme north - east, beyond the Pelóri, was the Helcaraxë, a vast ice sheet that joined the two continents of Aman and Middle - earth before the War of Wrath . A long chain of islands called the Enchanted Isles were raised along the east coast Aman, to prevent anyone from reaching Aman by sea, without the blessing of the Valar . </P> <P> After the destruction of Númenor, the Undying Lands were removed from Arda so that Men could not reach them . The Elves could go there only by the Straight Road and in ships capable of passing out of the spheres of the earth . </P> <P> The size of Valinor is not specified in the text, and Tolkien created no detailed maps of Aman . The maps of Karen Wynn Fonstad, based on Tolkien's rough sketch of Arda's landmasses and seas, show Valinor about 800 miles wide, west to east (from the Great Sea to the Outer Sea), and about 3000 miles long north to south - similar in size to the United States . The entire continent of Aman runs from the Arctic latitudes of the Helcaraxë to the subarctic southern region of Middle - earth - about 7000 miles . </P>

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