this is a list of the known realms of arda in j. r. r. tolkien's legendarium. major locations within realms, if any, are listed under each. dates given in brackets refer to the fictional timeline of arda. ==first age and before== ===realms of the dwarves=== *khazad-dÃ»m of durin's folk (longbeards) (founded at least 400 years before the rising of the moon) *belegost of the firebeards (founded at least 400 years before the moon, but after moria and the great journey) *nogrod of the broadbeams (founded when belegost was founded, destroyed during the war of wrath) *bar-en-nibin-noeg and nulukkhizdÄ«n of the petty-dwarves (mostly abandoned before the moon) ===realm of the enemy=== *dor daedeloth (until the war of wrath) **angband (founded before the first age, rebuilt a few years before the rising of the moon) **utumno (destroyed during the first age and not rebuilt) ===realms of the elves=== ====noldorin realms==== *hithlum (founded c. 1) **dor-lÃ³min (founded c. 1, given to men c. 400) **nevrast (founded c. 1, until 104) *nargothrond (founded c. 50) *dorthonion (founded c. 1) *tol sirion (founded c. 1) *gondolin (founded c. 64) *march of maedhros (founded c. 1) *east beleriand (founded c. 1) **himlad (founded c. 1) **thargelion (founded c. 1) **maglor's gap (founded c.1) ====sindarin realms==== *falas (destroyed 473) *eglador, later doriath ====avarin and nandorin realms==== *lÃ³rinand *ossiriand *dorwinion *nan elmoth ====telerin realms==== *tol eressÃ«a ===realms of the edain (men)=== *estolad (until c. 450) *dor-lÃ³min (inhabited by men c. 400) *brethil (after c. 400) *ladros (after c. 400) ===realms of the ents=== *forests of eriador *fangorn forest *forests of south beleriand ===realms of the valar=== *aman *arda the realm *valinor ==second age== ===realms of men=== ====nÃºmenÃ³reans==== *nÃºmenor (founded 32, destroyed 3319) **lond daer later vinyalondÃ« (foresting colony, founded c. 1000) *arnor (first colonized c. 800, founded 3320 by elendil) *gondor (first colonized c. 1100, founded 3320 by elendil) *umbar (first colonized c. 1100, founded c. 3220 by black nÃºmenÃ³reans) ====others==== *"dead men" of the white mountains *men of the first and third houses in eriador (merged with arnor) *men of the second house in enedwaith and minhiriath (later dunlendings) *drÃºedain of drÃºwa
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