Isle of Balar

The Isle of Balar was an island located about seventy-five miles off the southern coast of Beleriand in the great Bay of Balar, known for being a refuge and gathering point of Eldar and Edain during the First Age of Middle-earth.The Atlas of Middle-earth, The First Age, The Elder Days, "Beleriand and the Lands to the North"
==History==
The Isle may have been, according to legend, the northern tip of Tol Eressëa which had broken off when Ulmo ferried the Eldar to Aman. Before the Dagor Bragollach, Turgon of Gondolin had prepared and organized an outpost there for which he sent ships filled with messengers to Aman, to plead for aid from the Valar but none save for the Elf, Voronwë, who was saved by Ulmo ever returned to Middle-earth.
When the Falas was destroyed, the Isle of Balar became a refugee camp for the survivors of the Havens of the Falas which were headed by Círdan. The camps on Balar maintained close contact with the refugee camp in Arvernien headed by the half-elf, Eärendil. It was on Balar that Círdan helped Eärendil build the ship Vingilotë, with which later he sought for Valinor, to ask for the pardon of the Valar and help against Morgoth.
During the War of Wrath, many Sindar and some Ñoldor were still camped at the Isle of Balar, 
and after the war, some survivors were gathered there given the fact that they could not return to their homes in Beleriand. From Balar many Elves went to Lindon, whilst many returned to Valinor and the Edain sailed to the newly raised isle of Númenor. Sometime after SA 32, the Isle of Balar eventually fell beneath the Belegaer becoming one the Lands Under the Wave.
In the shallow waters surrounding the isle, there could be found a wealth of pearls.Unfinished Tales, Part One: The First Age, I: "Of Tuor and his Coming to Gondolin", Notes
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Eiland Balar
Albanian 	Ishulli i Balarit
Amharic 	አይል ኦፍ ባላር
Arabic 	جزيرة بالار
Armenian 	Բալար կղզի
Azerbaijani 	Balar adası
Basque 	Balar uhartea
Belarusian Cyrillic	Востраў Балар
Bengali 	আইল অফ বলার
Bosnian 	Ostrvo Balar
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Стров Балар
Catalan 	Illa de Balar
Chinese 	巴拉爾島
Cornish 	Ynys Balar
Croatian 	Otok Balar
Czech 	Ostrůvek Balar
Danish 	Øen Balar
Dutch 	Eiland Balar
Esperanto 	Insulo de Balar
Estonian 	Balar saart
Faroese 	Balar oyggj
Finnish 	Balarin saari
French 	Île de Balar
Frisian 	Eilun Balar (Northern)
Galician 	Illa de Balar
Georgian 	კუნძული ბალარ
Greek 	Νήσος Βαλαρ
Gujarati 	બલાર ટાપુ
Hebrew 	האי באלאר
Hindi 	आइल ऑफ़ बलर
Hungarian 	Balar-sziget
Icelandic 	Balareyja
Ido 	Insulo di Balar
Indonesian 	Pulau Balar
Irish Gaelic 	Inis Balar
Italian 	Isola di Balar
Japanese 	バラール島
Javanese 	Pulo Balar
Kannada 	ಬಾಲಾರ್ ದ್ವೀಪ
Kazakh 	Балар аралы (Cyrillic) Balar aralı (Latin)
Korean 	아일오브발라
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Балар аралы
Latin 	Balar insula
Latvian 	Balar sala
Lithuanian 	Balar sala
Luxembourgish 	Insel Balar
Macedonian Cyrillic	Островот Балар
Malaysian 	Pulau Balar
Maltese 	Gżira Balar
Manx 	Ellan Balar
Maori 	Motu o Balar
Marathi 	आईल ऑफ बलार
Mirandese 	Ilha de Balar
Nepalese 	बेलार आइल्याण्ड
Norwegian 	Balars øy
Occitan 	Illa de Balar
Old English 	Balarīeg
Persian 	جزیره بالار
Polish 	Balar wyspa
Portuguese 	Ilha de Balar
Punjabi 	ਆੲੀਲ ਆਫ਼ ਬਲਰ
Romanian 	Insula Balar
Scots 	Isle o Balar
Scottish Gaelic 	Eilean de Balar
Sicilian 	Ìsula di Balar
Serbian 	Острво Балар (Cyrillic) Ostrvo Balar (Latin)
Slovak 	Balar ostrov
Slovenian 	Balar otok
Spanish 	Isla de Balar
Swahili 	Kisiwa cha Balar
Swedish 	Balars ö
Tagalog 	Pulo ng Balar
Tamil 	பலர் தீவு
Telugu 	బాలర్ ద్వీపం
Thai 	ไอล์ออฟบะละร
Turkish 	Balar Adası
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Острів Балар
Urdu 	آئل آف بالر
Uzbek 	Балар ороли (Cyrillic) Balar oroli (Latin)
Venetian 	Ìxoła de Balar
Vietnamese 	Đảo Balar
Welsh 	Ynys Balar
Waray 	Puro han Balar
West Flemish 	Eiland Balar
Yiddish 	אינזל פון באַלאַר
Yoruba 	Erékùṣù ilẹ̀ Balar
Zazaki 	Adey Balar
== References ==
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