Denethor Hîr Minas Tirith
Nombre de messages : 638 Age : 33 Localisation : Minas Tirith, tour blanche de Cirion Date d'inscription : 25/03/2005
| Sujet: Carte -> Ambarkanta Lun 26 Sep à 20:04 | |
| J'ai croqué une carte de l'Ambarkanta (formation du monde), décrites dans les HoMe IV, "The Shapping of The World". - Tolkien a écrit:
- About all the World are the Ilurambar, or Walls of the
World. They are as ice and glass and steel, being above all imagination of the Children of Earth cold, transparent, and hard. They cannot be seen, nor can they be passed, save by the Door of Night. Within these walls the Earth is globed: above, below, and upon all sides is Vaiya, the Enfolding Ocean. But this is more like to sea below the Earth and more like to air above the Earth. In Vaiya below the Earth dwells Ulmo. Above the Earth lies the Air, which is called Vista,(1) and sustains birds and clouds. Therefore it is called above Fanyamar, or Cloudhome; and below Aiwenore (2) or Bird-land. But this air lies only upon Middle-earth and the Inner Seas, and its proper bounds are the Mountains of Valinor in the West and the Walls of the Sun in the East. Therefore clouds come seldom in Valinor, and the mortal birds pass not beyond the peaks of its mountains. But in the North and South, where there is most cold and darkness and Middle-earth extends nigh to the Walls of the World, Vaiya and Vista and Ilmen' flow together and are confounded. Ilmen is that air that is clear and pure being pervaded by light though it gives no light. Ilmen lies above Vista, and is not great in depth, but is deepest in the West and East, and least in the North and South. In Valinor the air is Ilmen, but Vista flows in at times especially in Elvenhome, part of which is at the eastern feet of the Mountains; and if Valinor m darkened and this air is not cleansed by the light of the Blessed Realm, it takes the form of shadows and grey mists. But Ilmen and Vista will mingle being of like nature, but Ilmen is breathed by the Gods, and purified by the pas- sage of the luminaries; for in Ilmen Varda ordained the courses of the stars, and later of the Moon and Sun. From Vista there is no outlet nor escape save' for the ser-
vants of Manwe, or for such as he gives powers like to those of his people, that can sustain themselves in Ilmen or even in the upper Vaiya, which is very thin and cold. From Vista one may descend upon the Earth. From Ilmen one may descend into Valinor. Now the land of Valinor extends almost to Vaiya, which is most narrow in the West and East of the World, but deepest in the North and South. The Western shores of Valinor are therefore not far from the Walls of the World. Yet there is a chasm which sunders Valinor from Vaiya, and it is filled with Ilmen, and by this way one may come from Ilmen above the earth to the lower regions, and to the Earthroots, and the caves and grottoes that are at the foundations of the lands and seas. There is Ulmo's abiding-place. Thence are derived the wa- ters of Middle-earth. For these waters are compounded of Ilmen and Vaiya and Ambar' (which is Earth), since Ulmo blends Ilmen and Vaiya and sends them up through the veins of the World to cleanse and refresh the seas and rivers, the lakes and the fountains of Earth. And running water thus possesses the memory of the deeps and the heights, and holds somewhat of the wisdom and music of Ulmo, and of the light of the luminaries of heaven. In the regions of Ulmo the stars are sometimes hidden, and there the Moon often wanders and is not seen from Middle-earth. But the Sun does not tarry there. She passes under the earth in haste, lest night be prolonged and evil strengthened; and she is drawn through the nether Vaiya by the servants of Ulmo, and it is warmed and filled with life. Thus days are measured by the courses of the Sun, which sails from East to West through the lower Ilmen, blotting out the stars; and she passes over the midst of Middle-earth and halts not, and she bends her course northward or south- ward, not waywardly but in due procession and season. And when she rises above the Walls of the Sun it is Dawn, and when she sinks behind the Mountains of Valinor it is evening. | |
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Elu Thingol Drúedain
Nombre de messages : 43 Age : 31 Localisation : bilbliothèque d'Elrond a Imladris Date d'inscription : 14/08/2007
| Sujet: Re: Carte -> Ambarkanta Mer 15 Aoû à 17:31 | |
| tu parle d'un HoMe IV, "The Shapping of The World". qu'est ce que c'est ? | |
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Forfirith Conseiller du roi
Nombre de messages : 74 Date d'inscription : 15/05/2005
| Sujet: Re: Carte -> Ambarkanta Ven 31 Aoû à 15:55 | |
| Le 4° des 12 tomes de l'Histoire de la Terre du Milieu. Ce sont des brouillons et textes inédits de Tolkien publiés par son fils. Les 4 premiers sont traduits en français, le 4° "La Formation de la Terre du Milieu" est sorti récemment. | |
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