Thread:Argali1/@comment-26210095-20160224232645/@comment-26184570-20160225001617

I will have to explain it's geological history first, otherwise it will sound crazy.

The Belegaer is huge. When the Valar originally came down to form Arda, they needed a stepping stone. So, they brought forth a huge volcano. As such, it was eternally blessed, and emedietly grew into an atoll. In the early year of the trees, the newly-wed Maiar, Anahera and Galad, discovered this place, and had grand plans for it. By the time of the War of Wrath, Dol Fifili was a large village, encircling a huge pyramid. During the Second Age, the United Atoll's non-Elf inhabitants were only allowed so close to Valinor because they had already mixed with Elves. Other than that, the Ban of the Valar aplied to the Atoll, like it did to Valinor. When the Changing of the World happened, and modern geography was created, the United Atoll was placed so far out into the ocean that it is actually closer to the Newlands than to Middle-Earth. The only reason why Human visitors are allowed to the United Atoll is for the same reason they can go to Meneltarma-Valinor is forever out of reach, and they would only hit the Atoll or the Newlands.

The Atoll, all around has a circumference that is similar in size to Numenor, if not a bit smaller. The incircling islands all have mountains following the same ring profile, in the middle of the islands. They have a little more meat on them than you would expect, especially on their Eastern side, do to bits of land blasting towards the Atoll during the destruction of the Lamps. The center island is large, with black sand beaches. The Inya Sangheili, Tithendar and Kubwa Khazad each own an equally sized amount of incircling island, with Ka'ax Toliath having the large center island. Dol Fifili is on the northern coast of Ka'ax Toliath, centered on the Maraduin's final outlet. The great Maraduin river goes through Ka'ax Toliath, and by a bizzare series of events, it goes through all of the islands, independant of the sea, by a strange series of deltas. It originates in the lands of the Kubwa Khazad, then goes to Tolpin, then to Inya Sanghelios, and then stretching through the great lagoon to the center island, it's final outlet being where Dol Fifili is. All of the island's mountains are still covered in jungle, except for those in the lands of the Kubwa Khazad, which reach high enough to have cool, misty mountains and plateaus. The Manuwaith have the many thousands of tiny islands scattered through the Inner Lagoon.