Kalorme
Kalormë (Av. Kalâoro; PQ. "hill-crest over which the Sun rises") was a mighty mountain standing as highest peak of the Eastern Walls, a colossal, curving mountain range that marked the easternmost edge of the known world in the land of Oronto, the Uttermost East. Its peak was second in height only to Oiolossë, the snow-crowned summit of Taniquetil in the Blessed Realm. Kalormë was known as the Eastern Pillar, the Mountain of the Rising Sun, and the Great Watchtower of the East, mirroring Oiolossë, which stood as the Western Pillar of the world.
In ancient lore, Kalormë was revered as the place where the Sun first rose, and it was said that from its summit, the first golden light of dawn touched the lands of Middle-earth. The mountain was venerated by the distant peoples of the East, who regarded it as sacred, much as the Elves of Aman revered Taniquetil. The Lords of Essence, the legendary K’ta’vîr, were said to have shaped the lands surrounding Kalormë before the coming of the Elves and Men. Many believed that they raised their dwelling upon Kalormë’s peak, an immense citadel built of sky-metal and Pharazkâlê, reflecting the light of the Sun like a second beacon in the sky and their descendants or remnants still acted as silent guardians of these lands, like stewards of the Valar.
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With the reshaping of the world at the end of the Second Age, when Ilúvatar cast Númenor into the abyss and bent the shape of the world, many believe that Kalormë, along with the eastern walls, was removed from the circles of the world. If so, it now exists beyond mortal reach, alongside Aman and the Uttermost West.
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