Straight Road

The Straight Road, also known as the Straight Way or the Lost Road, was an invisible bridge that curved from the earth and led westward from the Belegaer to the realm of the Valar.
==History==
It was a route that left Earth's curvature through sky and space to the land of Aman. The Straight Road, so called because it followed the old path across Belegaer from before the Akallabêth and Change of the World, was only kept open to Elves, who were allowed to sail by it under special grace of the Valar.
It is noted in earlier writings by J.R.R. Tolkien that some mortals besides those carried on Elven ships like the Ring-bearers could also come across this path, such as Ælfwine in The Book of Lost Tales.
According to unfinished notes for The Lost Road (and somewhat related to later in The Notion Club Papers), Tolkien saw the location of the Straight Road as possibly somewhere near the Azores in modern times. The first location reached from the hidden path was Tol Eressëa.
The end of the Akallabêth mentions tales and rumours concerning mariners lost at sea who, by fate or grace of the Valar, had entered the path until they reached Avallónë.
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Reguitpad
Albanian 	Rruga e Drejt
Amharic 	ቀጥተኛ መንገድ
Arabic 	الطريق المستقيم
Armenian 	Ուղիղ Ճանապարհ
Azerbaijani 	Düz yol
Basque 	Zuzen errepidea
Belarusian Cyrillic	прамая дарога
Bengali 	সরল পথ
Bosnian 	Ravne ceste
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Направо Път
Burmese 	ဖြောင့်လမ်းမ
Cambodian 	ត្រង់ផ្លូវ
Catalan 	Camí Recte
Cebuano 	Tul-id nga Dalan
Chinese 	筆直航道
Croatian 	Ravne ceste
Czech 	Přímá cesta
Danish 	Den Lige Vej
Dutch 	Rechte Weg
Esperanto 	Rekta Vojo
Estonian 	Sirget teed
Faroese 	Beinur Vegur
Finnish 	Suora tie
French 	Route droite
Galician 	Camiño Recto
Georgian 	სწორი გზა
German 	Gerade Straße
Greek 	Ίσιο δρόμο
Gujarati 	સીધા રોડ
Haitian Creole 	Wout Dwat
Hausa 	Tafarki Madaidaici
Hebrew 	דרך המישירה
Hindi 	सीधी सड़क
Hmong 	Txoj kev ncaj
Hungarian 	Egyenes út
Icelandic 	Bein Vegur
Indonesian 	Jalan lurus
Irish Gaelic 	Bóthar Dhíreach
Italian 	Strada Diritta
Japanese 	ストレートロード
Javanese 	Dalan Lurus
Kannada 	ಸ್ಟ್ರೈಟ್ ರೋಡ್
Kazakh 	Түзу жол (Cyrilic) Tüzw jol (Latin)
Korean 	스트레이트도로
Kurdish 	Rê Rast (Kurmanji)
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Түз жол
Latin 	Recta via
Latvian 	Taisnā ceļa
Lithuanian 	Tiesiu keliu
Luxembourgish 	Riichter Strooss
Macedonian Cyrillic	Прав патот
Malagasy 	Lalana mahitsy
Malaysian 	Jalan yang lurus
Malayalam 	സ്ട്രെയിറ്റ് റോഡ്
Maltese 	Triq dritta
Marathi 	सरळ रस्ता
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Шулуун зам
Nepalese 	सीधा रोड
Norwegian 	Rettvei
Pashto 	سپینو سړک
Persian 	جاده مستقیم
Polish 	Prosta Droga
Portuguese 	Estrada Reta
Punjabi 	ਸਟ੍ਰੇਟ ਰੋਡ
Romanian 	Drumul drept
Romansh 	dretg Stra ?
Russian 	Прямой Путь
Scottish Gaelic 	Dìreach Rathad
Serbian 	Страигхт друм (Cyrillic) Ravni put (Latin)
Shona 	Yakarurama mugwagwa
Sindhi 	سڌو رستو
Sinhalese 	කෙළින්ම පාර
Slovak 	Priama cesta
Slovenian 	Ravne ceste
Somali 	Wadada toosan
Spanish 	Camino Recto
Sundanese 	Lempeng Jalan
Swahili 	Barabara ya moja kwa moja
Swedish 	Rakväg
Tamil 	நேரடி சாலை
Tatar 	Туры юл
Thai 	เส้นทางมุ่งตรง
Turkish 	Düz Yol
Turkmen 	Göni Ýol
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Пряма дорога
Urdu 	سیدھے راستے
Uzbek 	Тўғри йўл (Cyrillic) To'g'ri yo'l (Latin)
Vietnamese 	Đường thẳng
Welsh 	Ffordd Syth
Yiddish 	גלייַך וועג
== References ==
Category:Roads
Category:Arda
fr:Voie Droite
it:Strada Dritta
pl:Prosta Droga
ru:Прямой Путь