Girdle of Arda

The Girdle of Arda was the equator of Arda.

It is diagrammed as a being a known thing and part of the cartography of Arda in the Elder Days and Second Age. It runs from the far western part of Aman through the Valar city of Valmar, across the middle of the Great Sea, the Hither Lands, the East Sea, the Dark Land, and finally the mountain of Kalormë in the Land of the Sun or the Uttermost East, to where beyond lies the Gates of Morning. The Girdle does not appear on maps of the Third Age after the Change of the World.