Walls of the World
The Walls of the World were the walls that surrounded Arda. It is not clear what lay beyond them and what they separated.
Nienna's halls that were "west of West, upon the borders of the world", had windows that looked outward from the walls of the world.
After he was defeated in the War of Wrath, Morgoth was cast outside the Walls, through the Door of Night, to the Timeless Void, and ever since they are guarded.
Other versions of the legendarium
In earlier versions of the cosmology such as as the Ambarkanta, the Walls of the World were called the Ilurambar (Q, pron. [ˌiluˈrambar]) (q.v.) in Qenya and they bounded the layer of Vaiya. This was first mentioned in The Book of Lost Tales: Part One. Ilurambar derives from ilu- meaning "all, the universe" and rambar (plural of ramba) meaning "walls". Earlier it was called the Wall of Things.
The Walls were a shell that fence Vaiya and the world from emptiness and darkness of the Outer Void. The World and all its airs were globed inside of them. They were totally impervious and their only opening was the Door of Night which was guarded by Eärendil.
Tolkien later changed the conception of Ilurambar to Eärambar (Q. Walls of Eä). Presumably, this means he conceived two sets of Walls, the first of which separated Arda from the wide space of Eä, while the other separated Eä itself from the Timeless Void.
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